Verbs Quotes

209 Verbs quotes by 172 unique authors

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb. — Robert Downey, Jr.
I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb. — Brian Eno
But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun. — Bell Hooks
I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun. — Yoko Ono
You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs. — Steven Pinker
I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that… — Steven Pinker
Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all… — Michael Shermer
When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable. — Meg Whitman
The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language. — Erez Lieberman Aiden
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence. — Jasper Fforde
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a… — R. Buckminster Fuller
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when… — Mark Twain
My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If… — Grace Paley
You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something. — H. L. Mencken
The whole life lies in the verb seeing. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive. — Michael Pollan
But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I… — Barbara Kingsolver
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors… — Ray Bradbury
The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title… — Rob Sheffield
Verbs. All of them tiring. — Charles Frazier
whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other… — Mark Twain
Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin… — Gretel Ehrlich
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare,… — Terry Tempest Williams

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