One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
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.
One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved, changed. The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence.
If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.
We all have some proper noun to blame.
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.
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.
The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.
Life is a verb, not a noun.
I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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.
When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
Think Tank, noun: The shower.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.
The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
Mother is a verb, not a noun.
Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.
Art is a Verb, not a Noun.
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