Verbs Quotes - Page 4

Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.

So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs.

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

I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.

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.

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.

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.

Art is 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.

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.

Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!

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

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.

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

To love is an active verb.

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

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

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

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.

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

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

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.