Verbs Quotes

209 Verbs quotes by 172 unique authors

A kiss, when all is told, what is it? An oath taken a little closer, a promise more exact. A wish that longs to be… — Edmond Rostand
The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no… — John Green
I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of… — Pablo Neruda
We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things… — Stephen Fry
Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious… — Adrienne Rich
What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself… — Anne Carson
The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second “you. — Dashiell Hammett
The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book. — Joni Eareckson Tada
...she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it: her agony had been, half of it, because one day he would say… — Ford Madox Ford
I believe in love the verb, not the noun. — Greg Behrendt
Hyacinth,” Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, “do try to speak in complete sentences.” Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression.… — Julia Quinn
Observations,” he says. “Four imperial Unseelie guards were the only commonality I was able to isolate endemic to both scenes.” They’d been standing, armed, at… — Karen Marie Moning
This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using… — Maria Semple
No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected. "Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries jubillee and… — Patricia C. Wrede
Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office.… — Eric Weiner
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in… — Adrienne Rich
Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table. — Richelle Mead
I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in "I have cumberbatched the UK audience" apparently. Who knows, by the end of… — Benedict Cumberbatch
No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format. — Maggie Stiefvater
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every… — Barbara De Angelis
When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the way it looks… — Rollo May
Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling? — Stephen Covey
Poetry is all nouns and verbs. — Marianne Moore
Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns. — J. Patrick Lewis
After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world. — Bertha von Suttner

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