Nouns Quotes

• I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Verbs, Earth, Process

  "I Seem to Be a Verb". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1970.

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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, Verbs, Glory

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

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• Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mean, Men, Expression

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• All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Use, Facts, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.75, North Atlantic Books

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• I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.

  Nick Frost

  Writing, School, Causes

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• If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.

  J. Anthony Lukas

  Strong, Writing, Needs

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• The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Adjectives, Weak, Built

  WILLIAM STRUNK, JR. (1959). “THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE”

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• 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

  Love, Marriage, Verbs

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• Life is a verb, not a noun.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Love, Verbs, Life Is

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1904). “Human Work”, p.203, Rowman Altamira

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• The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

  Fiona Shaw

  Obsession, Obsessed, Clear

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Europe, Verbs, 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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• Art is a Verb, not a Noun.

  Ernest West Basden

  Art, Verbs, Art Is

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• Think Tank, noun: The shower.

  Craig Reucassel

  Thinking, Tanks, Showers

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• Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

  Marianne Moore

  Poetry, Verbs, Language

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• Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.

  Mary Daly

  God, Faith, Spiritual

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.52, Beacon Press

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• God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Verbs, Statistics, Biodiversity

  No More Secondhand God (1963) p. 28 (poem written in 1940)

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• Mother is a verb, not a noun.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Inspirational, Mother, Verbs

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• God is a verb, not a noun.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Verbs

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• Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

  Martha Graham

  Verbs, Theater

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• Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

  John Dryden

  Tree, Verbs, Language

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.353

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• I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Verbs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Writing, Hunting, Perfect

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  I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Girl, Witty, Women

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2003). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: National protection for national citizens, 1873 to 1880”, p.491, Rutgers University Press

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Sacrifice

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• Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Stars, Children, Growing Up

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from May 08, 2010

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