Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Eno

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

Charles Frazier

Verbs. All of them tiring.

Carl Sandburg

I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.

Chuck Palahniuk

Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses.

Anne Carson

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

R. Buckminster Fuller

God is a verb, not a noun.

Kingsley Amis

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

Evelyn Underhill

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.

Franz Liszt

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

Janis Joplin

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

Benjamin Whorf

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

Chuck Palahniuk

We all have some proper noun to blame.

Martha Graham

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

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.

Kim Harrison

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

Florence Nightingale

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

Fiona Shaw

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

Brian Eno

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Thomas Sadoski

I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly designed to influence my thinking in a certain way, I start getting concerned. I'm leery of people trying to paint a picture in a certain way.

William Strunk

Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.

William White

Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjectivehasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tightplace.

Bipasha Basu

I have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it's also entertaining, but I don't feel bad about it. I'm a proud woman.

Robert Hendrickson

One needs only to look at the adjectives used by the media to describe chemicals to understand why the general public is frightened: toxic, killer, lethal, deadly,

Ian Anderson

If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

Isabel Allende

A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.

David Cross

If there are a couple of adjectives people use to describe me, anger is usually in there. I've never taken that as criticism. It's the way I naturally communicate. But I'm not faux-angry, like Lewis Black, or angry like a gun-toting crazy person. I'm just angry in a mild way - it's not like I'm going to do anything about it.