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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
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
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
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
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
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
When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.
— Donald Hall
Destiny, noun: 1. The inevitable or irresistible course of events. 2. The inescapable future. 3. See also screwed.
— Seanan McGuire
acquaintance noun 1. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend.
— Cynical Site
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
Quotation is a noun. Quote is a verb.
— Eusebius Clay
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
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
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.