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Tag Name "Verb" (101)

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The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.
William C. Brown
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I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down.
Eddie Vedder
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Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior.
Susan Forward
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When your mother starts using the word party as a verb about her kid, that's absolutely crazy.
Dennis Miller
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She’s my wife. (Stryker) Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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God is a verb, not a noun.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.
Jane Austen
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In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR... It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction.
John Steinbeck
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The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.
Shusha Guppy
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To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb
Jimmy Carter
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Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.
Mary Daly
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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
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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
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I don't follow any organized religion, but I do believe in the idea of god as a verb - being love and light. And that we are part of everything as everything is part of us.
Sarah McLachlan
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The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second “you.
Dashiell Hammett
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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
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Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to purple prose, which was a tag given to the early mass market magazine writers earning a half cent a word for their fiction. They had to use every adjective, verb and adverb in the English language to add word count to stories in order to feed and support families.
Tom Johnson
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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
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The whole life lies in the verb seeing.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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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
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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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
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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.
Evelyn Underhill
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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
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