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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

Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand! — Andrea Gibson

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.

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

A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill. — Thomas Carlyle

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

Teach them the quiet verbs of kindness, to live beyond themselves. — Pat Conroy

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

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

Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it. — Guy De Maupassant

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

I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating. — Madeleine Thien

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

There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still. — Ivor Cutler

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

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

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

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

Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action. — Lierre Keith

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

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 just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning. — Louis C.K.

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

The door snicked shut. — Madeline Miller

Poetry is all nouns and verbs. — Marianne Moore

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

Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce. — Alain Ducasse

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

The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do . — Thomas Carlyle

So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden

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

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular. — Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

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

Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. — Janet Fitch

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

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music. — Artie Shaw

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

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

Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb. — Annie Dillard

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude. — Mary Oliver

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be. — Franz Liszt

There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair,
Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem
From insignificance. — W. H. Auden

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

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

Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in. — Kathleen Hanna

If he was trying German irregular verbs on the poor beast," said Clovis, "he deserved all he got. — Saki

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

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

Verbs. All of them tiring. — Charles Frazier

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

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

Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting. — Jonathan Franzen

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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