Quotes about Verb

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. Votes: 4

Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying. Votes: 4

Art is a Verb, not a Noun. Votes: 3

I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. Votes: 3

What happened when the Verb asked the noun to conjugate? She said "no-no!", forgot the "o" and decided to become a nun! Votes: 3

All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection. Votes: 3

One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved, changed. The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence. Votes: 3

I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.— - Verb. Votes: 3

God is a verb, not a noun. Votes: 2

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb. Votes: 2

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun. Votes: 2

When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable. Votes: 2

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. Votes: 2

After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world. Votes: 2

Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself. Votes: 2

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. Votes: 2

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb. Votes: 2

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language. Votes: 2

I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write. Votes: 2

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure. Votes: 2

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. Votes: 2

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all. Votes: 2

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more traditional roles. Votes: 2

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day. Votes: 2

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena. Votes: 2

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry. Votes: 2

Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air. Votes: 2

Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity. Votes: 2

There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion. That's interesting to me. You act compassionately. But then, how to act compassionately if you don't have compassion? That is where you fake. You fake it and make it. This is the mantra of the United States of America. Votes: 2

'State' can be a word that is a noun or a verb or an adverb - it's kind of why I chose that title. It's not to confound the audience but to keep me from painting myself into a cul-de-sac in the early stages of making a record by having too high concept or having some really strict set of rules I have to adhere to. Votes: 2

Compassion is a verb. Votes: 0

Consider incompleteness as a verb. Votes: 0

Knowledge needs to be a verb. Votes: 0

To love is an active verb. Votes: 0

Mind is a verb not a noun. Votes: 0

Life is a verb, not a noun. Votes: 0

Mother is a verb, not a noun. Votes: 0

I am a verb, not a noun. Votes: 0

Quotation is a noun. Quote is a verb. Votes: 0

Love as a verb. Love as a commitment. Votes: 0

The whole life lies in the verb seeing. Votes: 0

Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb. Votes: 0

Love is a verb and verbs show action Votes: 0

When it's done properly, taco should be a verb. Votes: 0

I believe in love the verb, not the noun. Votes: 0

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence. Votes: 0

Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb. Votes: 0

Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill. Votes: 0

Never use a verb other than ‘said' to carry dialogue. Votes: 0

Don't you DARE use party as a verb in my shop Votes: 0

To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb Votes: 0

Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb. Votes: 0

A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb. Votes: 0

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb. Votes: 0

Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun. Votes: 0

Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb. Votes: 0

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong. Votes: 0

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. Votes: 0

I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down.... Votes: 0

Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are. Votes: 0

Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb. Votes: 0

I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating. Votes: 0

The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do . Votes: 0

Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb. Votes: 0

The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give' Votes: 0

Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue. Votes: 0

Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents. Votes: 0

Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence"”a noun, a verb, and 9/11 Votes: 0

The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence. Votes: 0

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something. Votes: 0

Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action. Votes: 0

She's my wife. (Stryker) Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra) Votes: 0

Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce. Votes: 0

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling? Votes: 0

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight. Votes: 0

The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second “you. Votes: 0

If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective. Votes: 0

The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun. Votes: 0

The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in. Votes: 0

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be. Votes: 0

When your mother starts using the word "party" as a verb about her kid, that's absolutely crazy. Votes: 0

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive. Votes: 0

Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand! Votes: 0

Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent. Votes: 0

I just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning. Votes: 0

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing. Votes: 0

Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective. Votes: 0

If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. Votes: 0

A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image. Votes: 0

Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do. Votes: 0

Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail. Votes: 0

Love is more than a noun-it is a verb; it is more than a feeling-it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing. Votes: 0

My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb. Votes: 0

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. Votes: 0

In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'." Votes: 0

Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in. Votes: 0

Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. Votes: 0

The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable. Votes: 0

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry. Votes: 0

Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is. Votes: 0

A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill. Votes: 0

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive. Votes: 0

Wisdom that is not acted upon is just philosophy... but when lived as a verb, wisdom will be the foundation of your success. Votes: 0

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other. Votes: 0

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place. Votes: 0

Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat. Votes: 0

A person who uses party as a verb is a person who will walk into a shop and walk out wearing a rubber jumpsuit. Votes: 0

Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it. Votes: 0

Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun. Votes: 0

Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music. Votes: 0

I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me. Votes: 0

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A player who conjugates a verb in the first-person singular cannot be part of the squad. He has to conjugate the verb in the first-person plural. We. Votes: 0

If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb. Votes: 0

"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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The verb 'highly favored' (Luke 1:28) is the same as 'made us accepted' in Ephesians 1:6, referring to all of God's children. All true believers have been 'highly graced' by the Lord. Votes: 0

Some websites are completely optimized for simple conver- sion, and it's easy to tell. The design centers on one clear call to action, a vivid lozenge labeled with a verb. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The greatest relationships are those in which love is not treated as a noun, but as a verb; with romance not viewed as a burden, but lived as a poem. Votes: 0

This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb. Votes: 0

Writing is better if it's kept simple. Every sentence doesn't need to have perfect noun/verb agreement. I've said 'ain't' on the air. Because I sometimes use 'ain't' when I'm talking. Votes: 0

The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three. Votes: 0

[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. Votes: 0

Love is a verb. Love "“ the feeling "“ is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Votes: 0

I've heard it said: "˜By his home you shall know him'; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone who reverses the subject and auxiliary verb in his sentence. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Many dog owners believe that as much as 60 percent of their pet's brain is set aside solely to demonstrate applications of the verb "to eat"-in both the active and passive forms. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat. Votes: 0

In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in modern days that we have diluted faith from an act to a philosophy. Votes: 0

Teachers Lounge is a web series I co-created with Hollis James. We intentionally left the apostrophe out to turn Lounge into a verb. The show is about teachers lounging around, wasting time. Votes: 0

Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past. Votes: 0

Someone has written, Love is a verb. It requires doing -not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed. Votes: 0

In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple). Votes: 0

Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue... I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with "she asseverated" and had to stop reading and go to the dictionary. Votes: 0

whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth. Votes: 0