Language Quote by Kory Stamper

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

— Gertrude Stein

What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is…

— Anne Carson

Any noun can be verbed.

— Alan Perlis

“Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.”

— Anonymous

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.

— Donald Hall

“Nouns can act like adjectives (“chocolate cake”); adjectives can act like nouns (“grammarians are the damned”); verbs can look like verbs (“she’s running down…

— Kory Stamper

All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article,…

— Joseph Devlin

Words belong to each other.

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Johann Georg Hamann

Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.

— Robert Barry

I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time…

— Carl Sandburg

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

— Dave Barry