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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. -- Victor Hugo
Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying. -- Erin McKean
Art is a Verb, not a Noun. -- Ernest West Basden
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. -- Kim Harrison
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
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
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
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God is a verb, not a noun. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb. -- Brian Eno
I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun. -- Yoko Ono
When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable. -- Meg Whitman
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world. -- Bertha von Suttner
Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself. -- Lynn Margulis
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 verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language. -- John Wesley Powell
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
Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all. -- Mary Daly
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more traditional roles. -- Erin McKean
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
Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena. -- Michael Shermer
Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry. -- Bill Owens
Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air. -- Alice Oswald
Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity. -- Abigail Spencer
There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion. That's interesting to me. You act compassionately. But then, how to act compassionately if you don't have compassion? That is where you fake. You fake it and make it. This is the mantra of the United States of America. -- Dayananda Saraswati
'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
Compassion is a verb. -- Nhat Hanh
Consider incompleteness as a verb. -- Anne Carson
Knowledge needs to be a verb. -- W. Edwards Deming
To love is an active verb. -- Ogden Nash
Mind is a verb not a noun. -- John Dewey
Life is a verb, not a noun. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Mother is a verb, not a noun. -- Shonda Rhimes
I am a verb, not a noun. -- Tirza Schaefer
Quotation is a noun. Quote is a verb. -- Eusebius Clay
Love as a verb. Love as a commitment. -- Emily Giffin
The whole life lies in the verb seeing. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb. -- John F. Kennedy
Love is a verb and verbs show action -- Mr. T
When it's done properly, taco should be a verb. -- Jonathan Gold
I believe in love the verb, not the noun. -- Greg Behrendt
Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence. -- Jasper Fforde
Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb. -- Annie Dillard
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Don't you DARE use party as a verb in my shop -- Dylan Moran
To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb -- Jimmy Carter
Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb. -- lecrae
A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb. -- Joseph Beach
To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb. -- Andre Carson
Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun. -- Micky Dolenz
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb. -- Stephen Covey
If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong. -- Kingsley Amis
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. -- John Dryden
I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down.... -- Eddie Vedder
Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are. -- Cheryl Lacey Donovan
Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb. -- Shannon L. Alder
I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating. -- Madeleine Thien
The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do . -- Thomas Carlyle
Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb. -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give' -- Billy Graham
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue. -- Eric Weiner
Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents. -- Mary Oliver
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The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence. -- William C. Brown
You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something. -- H. L. Mencken
Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action. -- Lierre Keith
She's my wife. (Stryker) Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce. -- Alain Ducasse
Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling? -- Stephen Covey
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight. -- Aberjhani
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If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective. -- J. Anthony Lukas
The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun. -- David Mitchell
The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in. -- Elmore Leonard
In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be. -- Franz Liszt
When your mother starts using the word "party" as a verb about her kid, that's absolutely crazy. -- Dennis Miller
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive. -- Michael Pollan
Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand! -- Andrea Gibson
Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent. -- Lynda Obst
I just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning. -- Louis C. K.
...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing. -- Pat Metheny
Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective. -- Daniel Goleman
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image. -- Elaine de Kooning
Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do. -- Shonda Rhimes
Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail. -- Clive James
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
My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb. -- Dennis Wolfberg
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'." -- Arthur Eddington
Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in. -- Kathleen Hanna
Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. -- Susan Forward
The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable. -- Gene Weingarten
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry. -- Oscar Wilde
Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is. -- Mark Shields
A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill. -- Thomas Carlyle
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive. -- William Ralph Inge
Wisdom that is not acted upon is just philosophy... but when lived as a verb, wisdom will be the foundation of your success. -- Steve Maraboli
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
Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat. -- John Burnham Schwartz
A person who uses party as a verb is a person who will walk into a shop and walk out wearing a rubber jumpsuit. -- Cynthia Heimel
Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb. -- Janet Fitch
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
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
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it. -- Guy de Maupassant
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
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
I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me. -- Miller Williams
'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
We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave. -- Frederick Busch
A player who conjugates a verb in the first-person singular cannot be part of the squad. He has to conjugate the verb in the first-person plural. We. -- Wanderlei Silva

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