Nouns Quotes
I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.
Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.
After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself.
All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.
I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.
To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.
God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.
Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It's a real thing. It's not always referring to ancient history.
The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.
The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.
But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.
The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.
At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.
I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.
Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?
The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.
A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic.
And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore." "I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.
Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.