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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, Nouns, Endorsements

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.

  Steve Martin

  Apples, Pie, Firsts

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

  LeCrae

  Love Is, Nouns

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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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• Consider incompleteness as a verb.

  Anne Carson

  Incompleteness

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

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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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• A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.

  Thomas Carlyle

  War, Battle, Terrible

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• In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."

  Arthur Eddington

  Science, Physics, Modern

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)”, p.110, Cambridge University Press

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• The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

  William C. Brown

  Italian, Media, Stupidity

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• I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on.

  Mark Pincus

  Thinking, Unique, Path

  "Zynga CEO Mark Pincus on the future of the company: part one" by Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

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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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• I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.

  Ralph Steadman

  Artist, Splits

  "Lying with the best of them" by Ralph Steadman, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Grandmother, Perspective, Google

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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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• Never use a verb other than ‘said’ to carry dialogue.

  Elmore Leonard

  Use, Said, Dialogue

  Elmore Leonard (2012). “10 Rules of Writing”, p.17, Hachette UK

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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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