Verbs Quotes - Page 3

Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.

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

The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb. I want the verb to be educate, or activate, or engage, or confront, or defy, or create.

The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second “you.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

The words I overuse are all adverbs.

I think the best way to put it is that newspictures are the noun and the verb; our kind of photography is the adjective and adverb. The newspicture is a single frame; ours, a subject viewed in series. The newspicture is dramatic, all subject and action. Ours shows what's back of the action.

It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing.

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

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.

The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.

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

I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down.

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.

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

To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums upon the concoction; the fatal human tendency to say things straightforwardly must be detected and defeated by adroit reversals; and, if a glimmer of meaning yet remain under close scrutiny, it must be removed by replacing all the principal verbs by paraphrases in some dead language.

Knowledge needs to be a verb.

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

I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating.

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

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.

I am a verb. I am that I amNouns exist because there is a created universe and physical reality, but if the universe is only a mass of nouns, it is dead. Unless 'I am', there are no verbs, and verbs are what makes the universe alive