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If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.
— Michel Thomas
Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.
— A.B. Guthrie Jr.
The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.
— Erez Lieberman Aiden
To love is an active verb.
— Ogden Nash
To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb
— Jimmy Carter
I'm uncomfortable with verbs; they expect too much.
— Caitriona Lally
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
Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.
— Richelle Mead
He was just alive," [Gansey] said helplessly. "He just taught us four irregular verbs last week. And you killed him.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Don't you DARE use party as a verb in my shop
— Dylan Moran
Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
I'm a verb, Frank. Verbs don't answer questions.
— Richard Ford
It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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
Knowledge needs to be a verb.
— W. Edwards Deming
I am leaking letters and dripping verbs and bathing myself in the actions they long to take.
— Tyler Knott Gregson
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
Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.
— Daniel Goleman
Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.
— Frida Kahlo
She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.
— Philip Pullman
Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
— Mary Oliver
Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.
— J. Patrick Lewis
Information is currency ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.
— Lynda Obst
Life is a verb, not a noun.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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
You know what would help the instruction form? Verbs! Verbs would be nice! Because they help you get to the end of a thought!
— Lewis Black
In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."
— Arthur Eddington
His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.
— Jennifer Crusie
If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.
— Kingsley Amis
Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
— Jonathan Franzen
My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb.
— Dennis Wolfberg
The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.
— Steve Martin
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
— John Dryden