(8 quotes found)
“Love is more than a noun -- it is a verb; it is more than a feeling -- it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.”
William Arthur Ward
“Why indeed must ''God'' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.”
Mary Daly
“Poetry is all nouns and verbs”
Marianne Moore
“Think Tank, noun: The shower.”
Craig Bruce
“I've always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs, the strutting pageantry of the adjective and the flitting evanescence of the adverb, all kept safe and orderly by those reliable little policemen, punctuation marks. Wow! Think I got my ass kicked in high school?”
Dennis Miller
“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
“I've never met anyone who describes himself as a motorist, a noun that conjures up a chap with a moustache and leather driving gloves in an open-topped roadster.”
Joan Smith
“Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjectivehasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tightplace.”
William Strunk Jr. E.B. White
