Quotes of: Verbs Keyword

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.

Brian Eno

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

Andre Carson

To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless ...

Moonchild

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

Meg Whitman

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

Mortimer Adler

The soul is a verb. . . . Not a noun.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Love is the action verb of life, and of the heart.

The Wellspring Of Life

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

Robert Downey, Jr.

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Benjamin Whorf

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

Aberjhani

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Alan Perlis

We all forgot how it is being a human, but human is not a noun, it's a verb.

Alexander Zalan

Love is a noun as well as a verb, a treacherous construct.

Katie in Love

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

Lost in a Good Book

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

Mary Daly

Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.

Music

Know the adjectives that define you and pay no heed to the verbs that defy you.

Vidya Kumar

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

The Ministry of Motherhood

Man fucks woman; subject verb object.

Toward a Feminist Theory of the State

Compassion is a verb...It is the way you live your life every day.

Jeffrey A. White