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

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

Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up. — Ray Bradbury

Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen. — Barbara Kingsolver

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

Know the adjectives that define you and pay no heed to the verbs that defy you. — Vidya Kumar

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

He was just alive," [Gansey] said helplessly. "He just taught us four irregular verbs last week. And you killed him. — Maggie Stiefvater

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

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English. — Juan Felipe Herrera

A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and seethe wait to spell from her pen. — Rebecca McClanahan

There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die. — Sophie Swetchine

I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down ... — Eddie Vedder

Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents. — Mary Oliver

A person who uses party as a verb is a person who will walk into a shop and walk out wearing a rubber jumpsuit. — Cynthia Heimel

If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart. — William Zinsser

I hate all these crazy verbs, using a subjunctive to get what's happened in the future and the past mixed up. — Kerstin Gier

I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret;
The code of night tapped on my tongue;
What had been one was many sounding minded. — Dylan Thomas

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 know I have difficulties with some verbs. But if they get me, they get me. And if they don't understand me, they don't understand me. — Thalia

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 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

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

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs. — Philip Pullman

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

Check the cover letter. In a cover letter, you get actual communication instead of a list of skills, verbs, and years of irrelevance. — Jason Fried

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs. — Richard Brautigan

He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, guttural verbs, and the word postmodernist. — Donna Tartt

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

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

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

We spend most of our lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do. — Evelyn Underhill

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

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

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

When I got bored, I conjugated verbs. Kissing and conjugating go well together. They're both French. No. — Rebekah Crane

Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs. — Denise Fleming

I am leaking letters and dripping verbs and bathing myself in the actions they long to take. — Tyler Knott Gregson