Words matter. These are the best Verb Quotes from famous people such as Iman, Jane Green, John Wesley Powell, R. Buckminster Fuller, Ethan Canin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I beg you, don’t use the verb, ‘discover’, I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn’t exist before?
I learned that saying you love your friends isn’t enough: that love is a verb – it requires Acts of Love. It is all about the doing, not the saying, and now I make a point, every day, of emailing or phoning or making a plan with those I love.
The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.
God is a verb, not a noun.
You have to look at the value of different kinds of words. Adjectives weaken, and adverbs come even farther down the line. Verbs are strong; verbs and nouns.
‘State’ can be a word that is a noun or a verb or an adverb – it’s kind of why I chose that title. It’s not to confound the audience but to keep me from painting myself into a cul-de-sac in the early stages of making a record by having too high concept or having some really strict set of rules I have to adhere to.
When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the acceleration of this shift away from the industrial manufacturing ideology to more of a maker economy. And I also see an idea so powerful that the company name has become a verb.
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.
Andy wasn’t capable of any complicated thoughts or ideas. Ideas need a verb and a noun, a subject. Andy spoke in a kind of stumbling staccato. You had to finish sentences for him. So Andy operated through people who could do things for him. He wished things into happening, things he himself couldn’t do.
When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.
I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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.
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
‘Write’ is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think ‘compose’ is more accurate because you’re trying to make the sounds in your mind and in your voice. So I compose while I’m driving or in the shower.
I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
Sometimes you can do things with Spanish – like verbs and genders – easier than you can in English.
For an average noun or an average verb, an average mind can quickly create reference. Where did they hear it? See it? What does it remind them of? What is its connection? When was it last used in conversation? What has been my experience with it? A host of memories appear when you hear a word you remember.
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.
It was not that long ago when the accepted wisdom in football was that the running game had to be established – that was always the obligatory verb: established – before passes could become effective. My, we know how that has changed. Now the pass is established from the get-go, and running is an afterthought.
Words originating from the verb ‘to die’ were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
Many companies that become verbs actually end up modifying our behaviors, and companies that modify behaviors end up becoming behemoths.
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.
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.
Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.
A truly empowered woman turns her values into verbs. She understands what she values most, and she takes steps to bring that value to life.
When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.
Adverbs, we know, are meant to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. They help us understand things more clearly, more vividly, more… morely.
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
The verbs that are used for people who write quickly are almost never flattering.
