Nouns Quotes - Page 4

• Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.

  John F. Kennedy

  New York, Cities, Verbs

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• After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  People, Verbs, Ancient

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• All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.

  Joseph Devlin

  Class, Adjectives, Verbs

  Joseph Devlin (2014). “How to Speak and Write Correctly (illustrated): Fully Formatted Version”, p.5, Full Moon Publications

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• Language is a theme in the whole book, no? I mean it ends with the title poem about words are all we have. I guess midrash makes sense. How does it change in the course of the sequence? Well, God is into No and into Stasis/Nouns. Adam and Eve, in order to be in this world (and get this world going) must choose verbs. Which is to gain sex but also to choose death and all else that goes with change. To choose becoming over being.

  Gregory Orr

  Sex, Book, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I want language to help us live in a world of wonder/terror/change. I want it to be about "becoming" rather than "being." I think that being and nouns are part of our hopeless dream that time will stop and we will not die. but it's not that way. So, why not celebrate verbs and the beloved's metamorphosis into other people or creatures or places - the same spirit but moving through things, not static.

  Gregory Orr

  Dream, Moving, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think it's important for you to understand that homosexuality is not a noun that describes a condition. It's an adjective that describes feelings or behavior.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Thinking, Feelings, Important

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Fail is a verb not a noun, most people think that when they fail, they become a noun and call themselves failures. People have to learn from their mistakes just as children learn to ride bicycles by falling off bicycles. Mistakes can be priceless if we are willing to learn from them because the price to becoming rich is the willingness to make mistakes and learn from them without blaming or justifying

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Children, Mistake, Fall

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• The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Government, Together, Adjectives

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• The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.

  Cathy Davidson

  Order, Verbs, Demand

  Cathy N. Davidson (2011). “Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21s t Century”, p.18, Penguin

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• You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Bird, Verbs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.794, Harvard University Press

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• Growth of the soul is our goal, and there are many ways to encourage that growth, such as through love, nature, healing our wounds, forgiveness, and service. The soul grows well when giving and receiving love. I nourish my soul daily by loving others and being vulnerable to their love. Love is, after all, a verb, an action word, not a noun.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Love You, Healing, Love Is

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• Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in anything interesting. . . . Keep company with people who are interested in the world outside themselves. The one who never asks you what you are working on; who never inquires as to the success of your latest project; who never uses the word career as a noun -- he is your friend.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Work, Careers, People

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• Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing
  with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring
  with replacing the noun. It is doing that always
  doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that.
  Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and
  pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is
  what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no
  matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a
  great many kinds of poetry.

  Gertrude Stein

  Poetry, Doe, Matter

  Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1903-1932: Q.E.D., Three lives, Portraits and other short works, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas”

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• In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burning into baking asphalt.

  Alyson Richman

  Memories, Believe, Moving

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• Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Thinking, Humanity, What If

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• Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs; do not overwrite; do not overstate; avoid the use of qualifiers; do not affect a breezy style; use orthodox spelling; do not explain too much; avoid fancy words; do not take shortcuts as the cost of clarity; prefer the standard to the offbeat; make sure the reader knows who is speaking; do not use dialect; revise and rewrite.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Design, Style

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• Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb.

  LeCrae

  Love Is, Verbs

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• The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.

  Maya Angelou

  People, Together, Way

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• Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe.

  Jason Silva

  Understanding, Intellectual, Brain

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• Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.

  Martha Graham

  Drama, Verbs, Used

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• I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11 in it. I was wrong. He called me to tell me after Pat Robertson's endorsement, there's an Amen in every sentence he says too.

  Joe Biden

  Apology, Verbs, Endorsements

  "Biden Says Romney Ready for War in Syria, Iran". www.realclearpolitics.com. September 4, 2012.

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• 'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

  Artie Shaw

  Swings, Musician, Adjectives

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• I am a verb. I am that I amNouns exist because there is a created universe and physical reality, but if the universe is only a mass of nouns, it is dead. Unless 'I am', there are no verbs, and verbs are what makes the universe alive

  William P. Young

  Reality, Verbs, Alive

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• To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.

  Gore Vidal

  Novelists, Adjectives, Today

  Gore Vidal (2007). “Point to Point Navigation”, p.2, Vintage

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• Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.

  Bix Beiderbecke

  Musical, Technique, Noise

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