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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

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

I'm uncomfortable with verbs; they expect too much. — Caitriona Lally

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

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

You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs. — Steven Pinker

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

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

It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs — Arthur Conan Doyle

I miss Latin. So much fun
all those exciting verbs that don't come until the end of the sentence. It's like a movie trailer for language. — Libba Bray

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 a verb and verbs show action — Mr. T

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

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

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