Language Quote by Gertrude Stein

Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing…

— Gertrude Stein

When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what…

— Gertrude Stein

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great.

— Don Nelson

People say I'm bad at a lot of things. One I agree with is that I'm a bad driver.

— Alan Hansen

I think was able to do a lot of things here.

— Latrell Sprewell

“I break things, a lot of things, but I don’t want one of them to be you.”

— Patricia Briggs

I think there are a lot of things that are different and there are a lot of things that are the same.

— Klayton

anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are…

— Gloria Steinem

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

— Glenn Greenwald

In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ...…

— Barry Mazur

I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression:…

— David Sedaris

“Nouns, verbs do not exist for what I feel.”

— John Berryman

“By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. Even…

— Margaret Atwood

“As Brother Francis readily admitted, his mastery of pre-Deluge English was far from masterful yet. The way nouns could sometimes modify other nouns in…

— Walter M. Miller Jr

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical…

— Diane Ackerman