Verbs Quotes - Page 6

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

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

Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

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.

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.

He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the

Adverbs and cops always come in pairs.

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.

Love as a verb. Love as a commitment.

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

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

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

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

It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb and said, "They all feed one another," and called it good.

Verbs. All of them tiring.

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.

I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.

"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.

If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!

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

I'd like to invoke the Native American Navajo because their word for road is used as a verb. Their whole relationship to road has to do with how you travel it, who you are traveling it with, what the environment might be, where you're headed, in what direction, the weather and so on.

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.

[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.