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Good is a noun rather than an adjective. — Robert M. Pirsig

These words have been sanitized for your protection. An adjective and a noun, respectively. — Libba Bray

He wondered what the collective noun was for psychologists: a shortage of shrinks? A confession of counsellors? — Daryl Gregory

Economy: As an adjective, cheap; As a noun, that which compels us to render ourselves as such. — CrimethInc.

How can I say 'I love you', if I know the love is you .. the word 'love' either as a verb or a noun would be destroyed in front of you — Jacques Derrida

I am a verb, not a noun. — Tirza Schaefer

The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb — Jimmy Carter

Think Tank, noun: The shower. — Craig Bruce

Strange, the Hebrew noun which means "I am", The English always use to govern damn. — George Gordon Byron

This poor gambler isn't even a noun. He is kind of an adverb. — Stephen Crane

The simplicity of noun-verb construction is useful - at the very least it can provide a safety net for your writing. — Stephen King

I'd have to read and escape into another world where cops don't literally mean nightstick when they say nightstick and pucker is a noun. — Nick Pageant

Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun. — Sheryl Sandberg

We talk about cancer as a noun, as if it's a one time event: 'I've got cancer.' — David Agus

The greatest relationships are those in which love is not treated as a noun, but as a verb; with romance not viewed as a burden, but lived as a poem. — Steve Maraboli

Art is a Verb, not a Noun. — Ernest West Basden

Love is a verb. When it becomes a noun, it's over."

from "The God Patent" by Ransom Stephens — Ransom Stephens

Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb. — Shannon L. Alder

MOMB - noun - One who can deal with all of the INSANITY of being a MOM ... Because she's the BOMB! — Tanya Masse

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill. — Glenn Greenwald

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. — Nick Frost

Aam AAM, noun [Chaldee for a cubit, a measure containing 5 or 6 palms.] A measure of liquids among the Dutch equal to 288 English pints. — Noah Webster

Since we are on the topic of ravens, a collective noun for ravens is an unkindness. This is somewhat puzzling to Thought and Memory. — Diane Setterfield

Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know. — Buffy Andrews

Celerity: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) increasing the mobility or swiftness of movement — Alex Lane

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective. — Gloria Steinem

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. — Edward Sapir

Writing is not a noun, it's a verb. Writing is not a destination, it's a journey. You should not write to accomplish anything but to write. Write on! — Rodney L. Carlson

"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless. — Gore Vidal

I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write. — Richard Flanagan

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure. — Mortimer Adler

We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck. — Jon Stewart

'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

Pyrokinesis: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) to generate or manipulate heat — Alex Lane

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other. — Donald Hall

Faith is not just something you have. Faith is something you do. It can turn a noun into a verb quicker than you can say, See Spot run. — Beth Moore

Destiny, noun: 1. The inevitable or irresistible course of events. 2. The inescapable future. 3. See also screwed. — Seanan McGuire

Confidence; Noun. A condition where one knows what he is good at no matter how much you try to convince him otherwise. — Dan Pearce

acquaintance noun 1. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend. — Cynical Site

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective. — Rob Bell

Mother is a verb, not a noun. — Shonda Rhimes

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. — R. Buckminster Fuller

What happened when the Verb asked the noun to conjugate? She said "no-no!", forgot the "o" and decided to become a nun! — Ana Claudia Antunes

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

If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective. — J. Anthony Lukas

God isn't a noun but a process ... a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things. — Marianne Williamson

We all have some proper noun to blame. — Chuck Palahniuk

In reality, love is fluid; it's a verb, not a noun. — Sharon Salzberg

Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun. — Lorrie Moore

Back when they had been teenagers who thought love was a noun, a thing you could possess. — Marcus Sakey

There are worlds / in which nothing is adjective, everything noun. — Jane Hirshfield

Quote is a verb. Quotation is the noun. — Alan Lindsay

Music (Definition; Noun): The artistic organization of sound for the joy and experience of listening. — Duane Hewitt

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

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. — Martha Graham

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb. — Andre Carson

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

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. — Stephen Nachmanovitch

Crap talk; Noun. A condition where one's insecurities come spilling out of his mouth making him look like an unconfident idiot. — Dan Pearce

Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself. — Joe Tye

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

Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. — Mark Forsyth

Violence is not just an abstract noun.....its a way of life. — Jean-Marc Akerele

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. — John Dryden

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it. — Janis Joplin

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

Love is a noun as well as a verb, a treacherous construct. — Chloe Thurlow

Living is a verb, not a noun. Joy is found in living our life not just having a life. — Melissa Heisler

AB'ACOT, noun The cap of State, formerly used by English Kings, wrought into the figure of two crowns. — Noah Webster

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun. — Bell Hooks

The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive. — Voltaire

it's being branded a failure that causes the most pain; when 'failure' changes from being a verb to becoming a noun. — Anup Kochhar

CRUSHER: [NOUN] SOMEONE WHO SURFS HARD, AS IF THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE AND NO FEAR INSIDE — Alessandra Torre

Esk wouldn't have known what a collective noun was if it had spat in her eye, but she knew there was a herd of goats and a coven of witches. — Terry Pratchett

Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable. — William S. Burroughs

Bus factor (noun): the number of people that need to get hit by a bus before your project is completely doomed. — Brian W. Fitzpatrick

There's only three things he mentions in a sentence
a noun, a verb, and 9/11. — Joe Biden

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Life is a verb, not a noun. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image. — Elaine De Kooning

Matter. noun: what we're made of; the very stuff of the universe. verb: to command your contribution to the substance composing everything; to be. — Laurie Perez

Any noun can be verbed. — Alan Perlis

I believe in love the verb, not the noun. — Greg Behrendt

Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives. — Florence Nightingale

As with all inferior things, this part of the city was given an adjective while the rest stole the noun. — Gloria Steinem

I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. — Kim Harrison

Quotation is a noun. Quote is a verb. — Eusebius Clay

Marriage (noun): betting someone half your stuff that you'll love them forever. — Julie Johnson

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day. — Barbara De Angelis

It's one thing to be in love; it's another to act because of love. Love is a noun - a feeling you have - and it's also a verb, something you do. — Rob Bell

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something. — H.L. Mencken

Hypocrisy
/hi pakrise/ noun
1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else. — Shannon L. Alder

SLUT (noun): A woman with the morals of a man — Eric Jerome Dickey

Crash, from the Russian krashenina Noun: a rough fabric sometimes used to strengthen the spine of a book — Blue Balliett

In a modern dictionary, the noun "melancholy" has two definitions. First, it means "thoughtful or gentle sadness. — Joshua Wolf Shenk

Lepidopterists give the noun a gerund's push toward the verb, and say that butterflies are nectaring ... — Sue Hubbell

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun. — Yoko Ono

It's weird the way "finger puppet" sounds okay as a noun ... ladies. — Demetri Martin

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