Nouns Quotes - Page 2

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

God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.

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.

Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

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.

I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11 in it. I was wrong. He called me to tell me after Pat Robertson's endorsement, there's an Amen in every sentence he says too.

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

To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.

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.

A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born.

The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.

Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.

You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

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

I believe in love the verb, not the noun.

Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing that always doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a great many kinds of poetry.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

Art is a Verb, not a Noun.

Think Tank, noun: The shower.

The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.

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.

me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.

Any noun can be verbed.