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• 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.

  Gertrude Stein

  Rose, Poetry, Language

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.22, Vintage

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• Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world who likes dance can see dance, or hear music, or see art, or admire architecture - but everybody in the world uses words who is not a recluse or mute. But the writer has to take these most common things, more common than musical notes or dance positions, a writer has to take some adverbs, and verbs and nouns and ball them up together and make them bounce.

  Maya Angelou

  Art, Doors, Musical

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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

  Martha Graham

  Verbs, Theater

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• Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. If a man lies to you, he is behaving badly and unlovingly toward you. He is disrespecting you and your relationship. The words “I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don't kid yourself that they are.

  Susan Forward

  Lying, Love You, Passion

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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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• 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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• Art is a Verb, not a Noun.

  Ernest West Basden

  Art, Verbs, Art Is

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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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• Mother is a verb, not a noun.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Inspirational, Mother, Verbs

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• Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Writing, Hunting, Perfect

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• Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.

  William S. Burroughs

  Adjectives, Use, Humans

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.19, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Adjectives, Poor

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.84, Harper Collins

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• I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

  Josh Radnor

  Ears, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Names, Savages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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• Good is a noun rather than an adjective.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Unity, Adjectives

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Hero, Thinking, Verbs

  "The Complete Robert Downey Jr". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 16, 2012.

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• Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.

  Paul Rand

  Inspiring, Art, Expression

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• Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?

  William Safire

  Writing, Use, Available

  "On Language; When Putsch Comes to Coup" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. September 22, 1991.

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• If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of the New York Yankees or the Houston Oilers, or what label "Hang On Sloopy" by The McCoys was on, you are capable of remembering the differences between a gerund (verb form used as a noun) and a participle (verb form used as an adjective).

  Stephen King

  New York, Writing, Yankees

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.

  Theodor Adorno

  Important, Noble, Examination

  Theodor W. Adorno (1973). “The Jargon of Authenticity”, p.6, Northwestern University Press

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• I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.

  Carl Sandburg

  Adjectives, Verbs, Study

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders: humans, big things, small things, collectives, and liquids. Bantu languages such as Swahili have up to ten genders, and the Australian language Ngan’gityemerri is said to have fifteen different genders, which include, among others, masculine human, feminine human, canines, non-canine animals, vegetables, drinks, and two different genders for spears (depending on size and material).

  Guy Deutscher

  Animal, Vegetables, Two

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• But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether they interpreted this as a name of a substance, of a quality, or of a relation.

  J. L. Austin

  Names, Quality, Different

  "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 73), 1979.

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