(24 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
“The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.”
Douglas Hofstadter
“Life is a verb.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb active, to make bright, to scour. W-i-n, win, d-e-r, der, winder, a casement. When the boy knows this out of the book, he goes and does it.”
Charles Dickens
“Pork is not a verb”
Bart Simpson
“Love is a verb.”
Clare Boothe Luce
“Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail”
Clive James
“The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive”
W. R. Inge
