Nouns Quotes - Page 3

Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

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.

"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.

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.

Good is a noun rather than an adjective.

I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.

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.

No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.

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

I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.

Mind is a verb not a noun.

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

We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have "he" and "she." They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?

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

You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.

We all have some proper noun to blame.