Nouns Quotes

I'm usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale/Pusha T, Meek Millz, A$AP Rocky, Drake/Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller/I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you ni**as/Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you ni**as/They dont wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you ni**as

Life is a verb, not a noun.

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

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

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.

I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

God is a verb, not a noun.

Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

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

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

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

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

The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.

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

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

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

The Hebrews have a saying that God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns; it is not so much the matter that is done, but the matter how it is done, that God minds. Not how much, but how well! It is the well-doing that meets with a well-done. Let us therefore serve God, not nominally or verbally, but adverbially.

I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.

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.

To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.

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

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

Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It`s a real thing. It`s not always referring to ancient history.

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.

God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.

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.

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.

Any noun can be verbed.

Art is a Verb, not a Noun.

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.

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

Think Tank, noun: The shower.

I believe in love the verb, not the noun.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born.

Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing that always doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a great many kinds of poetry.

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

Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.

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

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective

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

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.

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

"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.

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