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Poetry is all nouns and verbs. -- Marianne Moore
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. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Compassion is a verb. -- Nhat Hanh
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
Love is a verb and verbs show action -- Mr. T
Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up. -- Ray Bradbury
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents. -- Mary Oliver
After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world. -- Bertha von Suttner
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. -- Martha Graham
Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all. -- Mary Daly
If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary. -- Michel Thomas
If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart. -- William Zinsser
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
A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb. -- Constance Hale
Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen. -- Barbara Kingsolver
whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth. -- Mark Twain
Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver. After all, it exists for a reason. -- Constance Hale
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Verbs. All of them tiring. -- Charles Frazier
You know what would help the instruction form? Verbs! Verbs would be nice! Because they help you get to the end of a thought! -- Lewis Black
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
Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. -- Benjamin Lee Whorf
You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs. -- Steven Pinker
Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. -- Janet Fitch
The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language. -- Erez Lieberman Aiden
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me. -- Ralph Steadman
I know I have difficulties with some verbs. But if they get me, they get me. And if they don't understand me, they don't understand me. -- Thalia
I'm more relaxed. I know I have difficulties with some verbs. But if they get me, they get me. And if they don't understand me, they don't understand me. -- Thalia
I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends. -- Garrison Keillor
I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on. -- Mark Pincus
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I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation. -- Steven Pinker
Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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
When I encountered rich people for the first time, I discovered that not only do they holiday in places that are hard to find on a map, but that they also use the names of seasons as verbs. When they asked me, 'Where did you summer and winter growing up?' I would usually say, 'As a child? The same place I springed and autumned.' -- Artie Lange
Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting. -- Jonathan Franzen
Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons. -- Gretel Ehrlich
Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns. -- J. Patrick Lewis
Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude. -- Mary Oliver
So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs. -- Teresa Nielsen Hayden
No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. -- Benjamin Lee Whorf
Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table. -- Richelle Mead
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
I can kick the can down the road, and I can also kick other modal verbs. -- Jarod Kintz
We spend most of our lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do. -- Evelyn Underhill
Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular. -- Soren Kierkegaard
She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs. -- Philip Pullman
The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs. -- Steve Martin
The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs. -- Richard Brautigan
His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action. -- Jennifer Crusie
Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die. -- Sophie Swetchine
There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still. -- Ivor Cutler
They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs... -- Lewis Carroll
There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance. -- W. H. Auden
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
I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs. -- Jean Kerr
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
Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure. -- Frida Kahlo
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
There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there is literally nothing. -- Sean M. Carroll
I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue; What had been one was many sounding minded. -- Dylan Thomas
Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water. -- Sandra E. Lamb
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
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
Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons. -- Gretel Ehrlich

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