Action Quote by Gaston Bachelard

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

— Gertrude Stein

When people say "the body," frequently they mean the literal body, the physical body.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names…

— Galileo Galilei

This naming of things is so crucial to possession - a spiritual padlock with the key thrown irretrievably away - that it is a…

— Jamaica Kincaid

What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.

— Kenny Dalglish

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

— Blaise Pascal

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Indeed, the term body (jism), organs ('arad), extent (mutahayyiz) and their like are all newly-invented terminologies. We have mentioned many a time before that…

— Ibn Taymiyyah

“The passion for naming things is an odd human trait. It is strange that men always feel so much more at ease when they…

— George Gaylord Simpson

“Parellelism: Concrete Nouns and Action Nouns”

— Manhattan GMAT Prep

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves

— Johann Georg Hamann

“Language itself is a major resource in the naming of what cannot be named”

— David Simpson