1.
I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
Robert Downey, Jr.
I believe that everyone performs acts of valor, but being a hero is not an identity, it's an action.
2.
In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.
Franz Liszt
3.
We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be.
Evelyn Underhill
4.
The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
Richard Brautigan
5.
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
Kendrick Lamar
7.
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
Martha Graham
8.
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.
Michael Shermer
9.
The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.
Erez Lieberman Aiden
10.
His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.
Jennifer Crusie
11.
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.
Kathleen Hanna
12.
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.
Barbara De Angelis
13.
Love is a verb and verbs show action
Mr. T
14.
When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.
Meg Whitman
15.
If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.
Kingsley Amis
16.
Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.
Lynn Margulis
17.
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.
R. Buckminster Fuller
18.
The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.
Elmore Leonard
19.
The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.
Joni Eareckson Tada
20.
If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.
Michel Thomas
21.
I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
Yoko Ono
22.
A person who uses party as a verb is a person who will walk into a shop and walk out wearing a rubber jumpsuit.
Cynthia Heimel
25.
In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR... It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction.
John Steinbeck
27.
Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen.
Barbara Kingsolver
28.
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way) is a mortal sin. The writer is now exposing himself in earnest, using a word that distracts and can interrupt the rhythm of the exchange.
Elmore Leonard
29.
When it's done properly, taco should be a verb.
Jonathan Gold
30.
They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.
Lewis Carroll
31.
Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.
Shonda Rhimes
33.
Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action.
Lierre Keith
34.
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
Edward Sapir
35.
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.
Charles Spurgeon
36.
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
Elaine de Kooning
37.
James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.
Anne McCaffrey
38.
Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.
Annie Dillard
39.
Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb.
LeCrae
40.
There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.
Ivor Cutler
41.
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.
Joseph Devlin
42.
The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.
Shusha Guppy
43.
...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.
Pat Metheny
44.
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.
Eve Ensler
45.
After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.
Henry Watson Fowler
46.
Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.
Ray Bradbury
47.
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.
Jonathan Raban
49.
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.
Pat Metheny
50.
Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.
Benjamin Lee Whorf