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Art is a Verb, not a Noun. -- Ernest West Basden
Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent. -- Veronica Roth
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
Think Tank, noun: The shower. -- Craig Bruce
God is a verb, not a noun. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun. -- Yoko Ono
To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb. -- Andre Carson
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. -- Martha Graham
I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
We talk about cancer as a noun, as if it's a one time event: 'I've got cancer.' -- David Agus
Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all. -- Mary Daly
I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write. -- Richard Flanagan
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure. -- Mortimer Adler
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. -- Edward Sapir
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't. -- Nick Frost
But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun. -- bell hooks
Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether it's feminist writer, Jewish writer, Russian writer, or whatever. -- Alice McDermott
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
The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.' -- William Safire
The word 'universe' is obviously not intended to have a plural, but science has evolved in such a way that we need a plural noun for something similar to what we ordinarily call our universe. -- Leonard Susskind
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. -- Ambrose Bierce
A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on. -- Deborah Moggach
There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge. -- Walter Murch
'State' can be a word that is a noun or a verb or an adverb - it's kind of why I chose that title. It's not to confound the audience but to keep me from painting myself into a cul-de-sac in the early stages of making a record by having too high concept or having some really strict set of rules I have to adhere to. -- Todd Rundgren
Any noun can be verbed. -- Alan Perlis
Think Tank, noun: The shower. -- Craig Bruce
Mother is a verb, not a noun. -- Shonda Rhimes
Mind is a verb not a noun. -- John Dewey
Life is a verb, not a noun. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I am a verb, not a noun. -- Tirza Schaefer
Quotation is a noun. Quote is a verb. -- Eusebius Clay
We all have some proper noun to blame. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Good is a noun rather than an adjective. -- Robert M. Pirsig
I believe in love the verb, not the noun. -- Greg Behrendt
Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective -- Rob Bell
diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives. -- Florence Nightingale
I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun. -- Rob Sheffield
It's weird the way "finger puppet" sounds okay as a noun... ladies. -- Demetri Martin
Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun. -- Micky Dolenz
To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb -- Jimmy Carter
We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck. -- Jon Stewart
Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb. -- lecrae
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. -- John Dryden
Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb. -- Shannon L. Alder
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. -- Kim Harrison
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue. -- Eric Weiner
Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle. -- Fred Rogers
You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something. -- H. L. Mencken
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Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable. -- William S. Burroughs
The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available? -- William Safire
The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun. -- David Mitchell
Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill. -- Glenn Greenwald
If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective. -- J. Anthony Lukas
Economy: As an adjective, cheap; As a noun, that which compels us to render ourselves as such. -- CrimethInc.
The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive. -- Voltaire
The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place, -- William Strunk, Jr.
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image. -- Elaine de Kooning
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective. -- Gloria Steinem
At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it. -- Janis Joplin
God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things. -- Marianne Williamson
Love is more than a noun-it is a verb; it is more than a feeling-it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing. -- William Arthur Ward
"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless. -- Gore Vidal
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. -- Susan Forward
What happened when the Verb asked the noun to conjugate? She said "no-no!", forgot the "o" and decided to become a nun! -- Ana Claudia Antunes
To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun. -- Gore Vidal
When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other. -- Donald Hall
Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place. -- Martha Graham
People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security. -- James Gosling
Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music. -- Artie Shaw
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music. -- Artie Shaw
Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun. -- Lorrie Moore
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself. -- Joe Tye
If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after! -- Bill Gaede
The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb. -- Cathy Davidson
Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It`s a real thing. It`s not always referring to ancient history. -- Rachel Maddow
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding. -- Benjamin Lee Whorf
The greatest relationships are those in which love is not treated as a noun, but as a verb; with romance not viewed as a burden, but lived as a poem. -- Steve Maraboli
Writing is better if it's kept simple. Every sentence doesn't need to have perfect noun/verb agreement. I've said 'ain't' on the air. Because I sometimes use 'ain't' when I'm talking. -- Stuart Scott
parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat. -- Jodi Picoult
The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb. -- bell hooks
Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. -- Martin Amis
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple). -- Barry Mazur
When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun. -- Gertrude Stein
Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now. -- Fred Rogers
I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be Christian or something could be Christian. But it just can be and is. -- Rob Bell
Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves. -- Diane Ackerman
Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe. -- Jason Silva

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