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I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians. — John P. Wheeler III

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

Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs. — A.B. Guthrie Jr.

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

One of them had been limited to nouns, verbs, and roaring. — Margaret Atwood

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

Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun. — Micky Dolenz

A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born. — Yukiru Sugisaki

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"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

They wanted to be nouns, but they were, and eternally must be, mere adjectives. — C.S. Lewis

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns. — Fiona Shaw

Politicians are more concerned with "issues" than "principles," but talked as though the two nouns had the same meaning. — Tom Clancy

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

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

What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns? — Gaston Bachelard

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

Like most children, theirs was a relation based on verbs, not nouns. — Zadie Smith

Writing's in the nouns. — Lori Roy

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean "More people died" don't say "Mortality rose. — C.S. Lewis

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. — Benjamin Whorf

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns. — J. Patrick Lewis

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

Each other refers to two nouns; one another refers to three or more, a distinction that careful writers generally observe. — Martha J. Kolln

That's so," said Eliza. "Vacation ends next month. I start Latin this year. They say it's awful. You decline nouns. All _I_ can say is, who wouldn't? — Edward Eager

So what you're saying is you can't explain it."
"I did explain it."
"No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format. — Maggie Stiefvater

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book. — Joni Eareckson Tada

Poetry is all nouns and verbs. — Marianne Moore

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies. — Josh Radnor

There was extraordinary pain behind the ordinary nouns. — Chris Cleave

Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb. — John F. Kennedy

Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers. — Margaret Atwood

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

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

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

I stopped speaking when I realized I was no longer using any verbs or nouns, or making any sense — Jenny Han

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

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

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

1. Form the possessive singular of nouns with 's. — William Strunk Jr.

There are a lot of other things besides nouns. — Gertrude Stein

Ours is an active faith. It is made alive and appealing only when our nouns turn into verbs. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action. — Jennifer Crusie

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

The days are nouns: touch them
The hands are churches that worship the world — Naomi Shihab Nye

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

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

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

Any noun can be verbed. — Alan Perlis

I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days. — Carl Sandburg

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

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

Nouns and verbs hold the power but syntax casts the spell. — Janet Peery