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Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure. — Ada Yonath

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years. — Erin McKean

A similar sound, especially light, tremulous speech or laughter." This is it, he thought. "Agitation or excitement; flutter." A verb. Twitter. — Nick Bilton

Wisdom that is not acted upon is just philosophy ... but when lived as a verb, wisdom will be the foundation of your success. — Steve Maraboli

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

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

Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb. — Janet Fitch

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

My friend, love is a verb. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. — Stephen R. Covey

The word "seek" is a verb. Are you treating it as such in your life? If you seek change, success, or love, DO it - BE it! — Steve Maraboli

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

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive. — William Ralph Inge

She's my wife. (Stryker)
Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

If you make every sentence an exclamation or put every verb in 'bold,' then nothing stands out. — Michael S. Horton

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

Don't you DARE use party as a verb in my shop — Dylan Moran

:...I love you with all the moods and tenses of the verb... — Bram Stoker

The whole life lies in the verb seeing. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

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

Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill. — Flann O'Brien

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

Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail. — Clive James

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

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

And pretty is not even the right word. She burns. She's a verb. — Max Gladstone

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena. — Michael Shermer

God,' he said, 'I have to have you.'
'Take me. Own me. Use me. Pick a verb. Just please.'
'Fuck you. I'm going to fuck you. That's my verb. — C.D. Reiss

Faith is a three dimensional action verb".

~R. Alan Woods [19998] — R. Alan Woods

Glory to the logos, my friends! Long live dialectics! Let the party begin! May the verb be with you! — Laurent Binet

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

Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective. — Daniel Goleman

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong. — Kingsley Amis

We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent. — Henry A. Kissinger

A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb. — Joseph Beach

Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do. — Shonda Rhimes

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.
American novels, answered Lord Henry. — Oscar Wilde

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

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

When it's done properly, taco should be a verb. — Jonathan Gold

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

Faith is a verb. An action, like love, that we do and live every day. — Joan L. Mitchell

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

In wondered in avenging was being used as an adjective or a verb. — David Levithan

Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

A father is as much a verb as a mother. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language. — John Wesley Powell

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

The list of verbs associated with the six levels in Table 4-1 helps you to select a verb that fits the level of learning. — Elaine Biech

I am your own personal verb now. — C. K. Williams

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

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry. — Bill Owens

It is a notably obscene crime of our language that educate is not an intransitive verb. — Benjamin Hale

The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in. — Elmore Leonard

The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three. — Ulysses S. Grant

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

Few now would associate de-roofing with the police, but the verb 'to detect' originated in detegere - a detective raises the roof, figuratively. — Lucy Sussex

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

I'm a verb, Frank. Verbs don't answer questions. — Richard Ford

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

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

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

Branding is a verb, ya heard? Now get out there and BE your brand. — Catrice M. Jackson

A sentence has a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought. However, — Ann Longknife

I manage a toast to the Christmas tree
and one to the sweet absurdity
in the miracle of the verb to be.
Lucky you, lucky me. — Miller Williams

The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second you. — Dashiell Hammett

Love is a verb and verbs show action — Mr. T

There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb. — Joyce Rachelle

Brotha needed to buy a vowel and rent a verb, then get a roll of duct tape slapped on that broken English. — Eric Jerome Dickey

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight. — Aberjhani

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

Information is currency ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent. — Lynda Obst

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence. — Jasper Fforde

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

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

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

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling? — Stephen Covey

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

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

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

Knowledge needs to be a verb. — W. Edwards Deming

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

Never trust anyone who uses the word party as a verb but never trust anyone who would rather be grammatically correct than to party. — Tom Robbins

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

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

verb swon to swear, derivative of swannee I swan, raising kids is like being pecked to death by a chicken — Amy Metz

Well, love don't count one rass unless it's a verb. — Margaret Cezair-Thompson

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

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave. — Frederick Busch

Life is a verb, life swerves and lurches no matter how cautious and careful your driving. — Brian Doyle

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

Love is a choice I've made. A verb. And that, because I believe in it, because I act on it is real. Love is a very real thing to me. — Cynthia Hand

Love is a verb. It is an action word. — Unknown

If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then you don't really believe in it. Faith is a verb. — Kellen Roggenbuck

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

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

Possess. Have. Hold. Enjoy. Control. Dominate. Pick your verb, Ms. Fairchild. I intend to explore so very many of them. — J. Kenner

...and love, as an act, lacks a verb — Joseph Brodsky