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• Mind is a verb not a noun.

  John Dewey

  Mind, Nouns

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• I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.

  Garrison Keillor

  Wind, Circles, Enough

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• Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11

  Joe Biden

  Three, Nouns, Sentences

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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

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• I'm usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale/Pusha T, Meek Millz, A$AP Rocky, Drake/Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller/I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you ni**as/Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you ni**as/They dont wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you ni**as

  Kendrick Lamar

  Hip Hop, Nouns, Rhyming

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• Consider incompleteness as a verb.

  Anne Carson

  Incompleteness

  Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.17, Vintage

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• One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

  Edward Sapir

  Simplicity, Nouns, Glory

  Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.268, Walter de Gruyter

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• You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.

  Steven Pinker

  Hate, Believe, Mail

  "Basic instincts". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2007.

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• I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.

  Steven Pinker

  Memories, Years, Fundamentals

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• But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

  Bell Hooks

  Love Is, Nouns, Process

  "A chat with the Author of 'All About Love: New Visions'". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. February 17, 2000.

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• When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.

  Meg Whitman

  Names, People, Use

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• The verb 'highly favored' (Luke 1:28) is the same as 'made us accepted' in Ephesians 1:6, referring to all of God's children. All true believers have been 'highly graced' by the Lord.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Ephesians, Lord

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• My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb.

  Dennis Wolfberg

  Daughter, Wife, Our Family

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• A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case.

  E. M. Forster

  Dog, Flower, Gun

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• Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun.

  Micky Dolenz

  Nouns

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• The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give'

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Giving, Ministry

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, p.170, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Life, Inspire, Three

  "Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings".

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• Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Mother, Titles, Who You Are

  Twitter post from May 11, 2013

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• Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Europe, Nouns, Language

  Benjamin Lee Whorf, John Bissell Carroll (1964). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.61, MIT Press

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• My Spanish is getting a little bit loose. Sometimes I go to Spain and after I've been talking with my folks for a while... you start changing the verb for the adjective, for example, which is a common thing between Spanish and English. I change that sometimes but after a couple days there, boom, I'm back.

  Antonio Banderas

  Change, Couple, Talking

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• I just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning.

  Louis C. K.

  Thinking, Life Is

  "Louis C.K. on eating pressure and providing an alternative to The Man". Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. July 5, 2012.

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• A trick I picked up from reading Frank Miller scripts: ... He tended to always start his panel caps sometimes with a general noun and a verb. 'He weeps,' and then there'd be whatever else. And a couple of collaborators of mine have always said that the first sentence of my script is for them, and everything else that comes after is for me. Which is true, that's very much how I try to write. The first line is just to get the physical action down, and then I'll kind of drift off into whatever else I see in my head and they can take it or leave it.

  Matt Fraction

  Couple, Reading, Writing

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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

  Mean, Doe, Care

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.39, Penguin

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• Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

  Flann O'Brien

  Writing, Editing, Waiting

  Flann O'Brien (1989). “The Hair of the Dogma: A Further Selection from 'Cruiskeen Lawn'”

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• To love is an active verb.

  Ogden Nash

  Love, Love Is, Active

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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