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Poetry is all nouns and verbs. -- Marianne Moore
The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns. -- Fiona Shaw
One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved, changed. The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence. -- Kenneth Koch
Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful tough monosyllables like "gasp" and "cry." Nouns are the next most important. Adjectives tend to be useless. -- Donald Hall
I am a verb. I am that I amNouns exist because there is a created universe and physical reality, but if the universe is only a mass of nouns, it is dead. Unless 'I am', there are no verbs, and verbs are what makes the universe alive -- William P. Young
Think Tank, noun: The shower. -- Craig Bruce
God is a verb, not a noun. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Art is a Verb, not a Noun. -- Ernest West Basden
Life is a verb, not a noun. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Mother is a verb, not a noun. -- Shonda Rhimes
I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun. -- Yoko Ono
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. -- Benjamin Lee Whorf
Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. -- Benjamin Lee Whorf
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. -- John Dryden
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.
The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place, -- William Strunk, Jr.
Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all. -- Mary Daly
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. -- Edward Sapir
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
I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies. -- Josh Radnor
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
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
Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in denoting the object, it also assigns to it some quality or characteristic. -- John Wesley Powell
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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
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. -- Ian Anderson
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do. -- Maya Angelou
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success. -- Fran Lebowitz
Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy. -- Bryan Burrough
A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points of actions, cross sections cut through actions, snapshots. Neither can a pure verb, an abstract motion, be possible in nature. The eye sees noun and verb as one, things in motion, motion in things. -- Ernest Fenollosa
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
Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb. -- John F. Kennedy
Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns. -- J. Patrick Lewis
There are a lot of other things besides nouns. -- Gertrude Stein
No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format. -- Maggie Stiefvater
The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action. -- Jennifer Crusie
Each other refers to two nouns; one another refers to three or more, a distinction that careful writers generally observe. -- Martha Kolln
Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians. -- John P. Wheeler III
Someone will complete you some day and that day will never be late. Those nouns and verbs are above wonderful and never ending . -- Bikash Bhandari
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean â??More people diedâ? donâ??t say â??Mortality rose. -- C. S. Lewis
After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded. -- Henry Watson Fowler
What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns? -- Gaston Bachelard
The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function. -- Theodor Adorno
All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic... -- Bill Gaede
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. -- Carl Sandburg

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