Verbs Quotes

Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun.

The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.

Knowledge needs to be a verb.

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.

There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue; What had been one was many sounding minded.

Art is a Verb, not a Noun.

I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.

Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb.

To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.

So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs.

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.

Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.

There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there is literally nothing.

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.

To love is an active verb.

The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do .

[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.

J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.

In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."

"Balance" as a verb doesn't mean "stillness," but the constant act of making minor corrections from one side to another to bring one towards a center of stability.

I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.

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.

Verbs. All of them tiring.

The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.

My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb.

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

Never use a verb other than ‘said’ to carry dialogue.

Love as a verb. Love as a commitment.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.

I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs.

Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11

Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat.

Mind is a verb not a noun.

The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.

Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.

I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.

You know what would help the instruction form? Verbs! Verbs would be nice! Because they help you get to the end of a thought!

I just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning.

If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.