Answers Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.

— Henry Watson Fowler

The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense…

— Stephen Fry

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language…

— Rene Daumal

In English every word can be verbed.

— Alan Perlis

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

— Andrew Lakey

[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear reasons for…

— Tyler Burge

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

— Francis Bacon

Words are spoken empty. Why? We need to fill them with the actions we say we'll do and the promises we make. Otherwise, they…

— Kitsuné Scott

Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.

— Richard Dawkins

When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.

— Charles Baudelaire

“Yes. A language that will at last say what we have to say. For our words no longer correspond to the world. When things…

— Paul Auster

But it is imperative, for our own survival, that we avoiid one another, and what more successful means of avoidance are there than words?…

— Janet Frame