Verbs Quotes

209 quotes by 172 authors

A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill. — Thomas Carlyle
God is a verb, not a noun. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be nice… — Anne Bernays
I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined… — Mark Pincus
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. — Edward Sapir
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me. — Ralph Steadman
Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We… — Daniel H. Wilson
Growth of the soul is our goal, and there are many ways to encourage that growth, such as through love, nature, healing our wounds, forgiveness,… — Joan Z. Borysenko
There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still. — Ivor Cutler
In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'." — Arthur Eddington
The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence. — William C. Brown
Never use a verb other than â€˜saidâ€™ to carry dialogue. — Elmore Leonard
To love is an active verb. — Ogden Nash
You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. — John Dryden
We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance,… — Evelyn Underhill
I'm more relaxed. I know I have difficulties with some verbs. But if they get me, they get me. And if they don't understand me,… — Thalia
The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun… — Cathy Davidson
There's nothing wrong with possessions; it's just that they have value to us only when we use them, engage them, and enjoy them. They're nouns… — Rob Bell
Here is what I'm trying to tell you:Â AdultÂ isn't a noun, it's a verb. It's the act of making correctly those small decisions that fill our… — Kelly Williams Brown

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