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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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• Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun.

  Micky Dolenz

  Nouns

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• Mind is a verb not a noun.

  John Dewey

  Mind, Nouns

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• My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb.

  Dennis Wolfberg

  Daughter, Wife, Our Family

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• The verb 'highly favored' (Luke 1:28) is the same as 'made us accepted' in Ephesians 1:6, referring to all of God's children. All true believers have been 'highly graced' by the Lord.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Ephesians, Lord

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

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Nouns

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

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• 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

  Nouns, Earth, Process

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

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• This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Faith, Running, Writing

  Terry Tempest Williams (2001). “Leap”, Vintage

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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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• A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

  Elaine de Kooning

  Events, Nouns, Firsts

  "It is", No.4, Magazine for Abstract Art, Second Half Publishing Co., New York pp. 29, 30, Autumn, 1959.

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• The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb. I want the verb to be educate, or activate, or engage, or confront, or defy, or create.

  Eve Ensler

  Girl, Want, Please

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• If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!

  Bill Gaede

  Nouns, Physics, Articles

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• Because of the conflicts and challenges we face in today’s world, I wish to suggest a single choice—a choice of peace and protection and a choice that is appropriate for all. That choice is faith. Be aware that faith is not a free gift given without thought, desire, or effort. It does not come as the dew falls from heaven. The Savior said, “Come unto me” (Matthew 11:28) and “Knock, and it shall be [given] you” (Matthew 7:7). These are action verbs—come, knock. They are choices. So I say, choose faith.

  Richard C. Edgley

  Fall, Free Gifts, Choices

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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, Nouns, Ancient

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• I think the best way to put it is that newspictures are the noun and the verb; our kind of photography is the adjective and adverb. The newspicture is a single frame; ours, a subject viewed in series. The newspicture is dramatic, all subject and action. Ours shows what's back of the action.

  Roy Stryker

  Photography, Thinking, Adjectives And Adverbs

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• I don't follow any organized religion, but I do believe in the idea of god as a verb - being love and light. And that we are part of everything as everything is part of us.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Believe, Ideas, Light

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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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• The DNA of the novel - which, if I begin to write nonfiction, I will write about this - is that: the title of the novel is the whole novel. The first line of the novel is the whole novel. The point of view is the whole novel. Every subplot is the whole novel. The verb tense is the whole novel.

  Mary Kay Zuravleff

  Writing, Dna, Views

  Source: therumpus.net

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