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Tag Name "Noun" (57)

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.
Voltaire
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Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.
Gustave Flaubert
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Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.
William S. Burroughs
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
Janis Joplin
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The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.
William Strunk, Jr.
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Mind is a verb not a noun.
John Dewey
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We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.
Jon Stewart
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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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Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
Martha Graham
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Any noun can be verbed.
Alan Perlis
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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
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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
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The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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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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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
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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
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Think Tank, noun: The shower.
Craig Reucassel
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God is a verb, not a noun.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
Elaine de Kooning
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I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.
Rob Sheffield
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diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
Florence Nightingale
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Mother is a verb, not a noun.
Shonda Rhimes
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Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle.
Fred Rogers
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