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Tag Name "Verbs" (140)

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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
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When it's done properly, taco should be a verb.
Jonathan Gold
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Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
Jonathan Franzen
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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
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...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is there to begin with...I want all of my students and all of my dancers to be aware of the poignancy of life at that moment. I would like to feel that I had, in some way, given them the gift of themselves.
Martha Graham
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James Blish told me I had the worst case of said bookism (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.
Anne McCaffrey
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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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You only need a heart full of grace
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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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Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
Mary Oliver
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God is a verb, not a noun.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
Richard Brautigan
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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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We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
Evelyn Underhill
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Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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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