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Tag Name "Verbs" (139)

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Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.
Annie Dillard
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I'd like to invoke the Native American Navajo because their word for road is used as a verb. Their whole relationship to road has to do with how you travel it, who you are traveling it with, what the environment might be, where you're headed, in what direction, the weather and so on.
Anne Waldman
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The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be to do or to suffer. I signify all three.
Ulysses S. Grant
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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. We want to conquer. We are going to conquer. Using the word I when you're in a group makes things complicated.
Vanderlei Luxemburgo
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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
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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.
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Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!
Andrea Gibson
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Knowledge needs to be a verb.
W. Edwards Deming
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The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give'
Billy Graham
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J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, jacere, to throw, because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.
Ambrose Bierce
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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
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Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.
Alain Ducasse
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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
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
Adrienne Rich
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
Victor Hugo
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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
Aberjhani
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[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.
Abby May Alcott
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Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.
John F. Kennedy
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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
Charles Baudelaire
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Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Stephen Covey
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Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.
J. Patrick Lewis
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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
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