Verbs Quotes

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

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

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.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

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.

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.

The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.

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

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.

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.

Love is a verb and verbs show action

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

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

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

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.

The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.

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

If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.

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

Mother is a verb, not a noun.

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

Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

God is a verb, not a noun.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.

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

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.

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.

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