Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janis Joplin

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

Chuck Palahniuk

We all have some proper noun to blame.

Benjamin Whorf

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

Gertrude Stein

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

Florence Nightingale

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

Fiona Shaw

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

Joe Biden

Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11

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.

Charles Frazier

Verbs. All of them tiring.

Brian Eno

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

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.

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.

Anne Carson

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

Jimmy Carter

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

Franz Liszt

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

Gretel Ehrlich

Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

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.

Charlie Kaufman

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

Robert Wilson

To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'

Brian Baumgartner

I come from straight theater.

Austin Peck

Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.

Didi Conn

I love working in the theater.

Jane Krakowski

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

Carrie Coon

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

Angela Lansbury

The theater is magical and addictive.

Stephen Sachs

I think it's going to be visually stunning. It's going to be a very unique theater experience,