Top 100 A Noun Quotes
#1. it's being branded a failure that causes the most pain; when 'failure' changes from being a verb to becoming a noun.
Anup Kochhar
#2. At best she's a scrawny, hollow-eyed croneling." "Croneling?" John tilted his head in perplexity. "Croneling. Noun. One who has yet to achieve cronehood. The adolescent phase of the British crone," Avery lectured.
Connie Brockway
#4. MOM - noun - One who sacrifices her body, sleep, social life, spending money, eating hot meals, peeing alone, patience, memory, energy and sanity for LOVE!
Tanya Masse
#5. Critical feedback shared in good faith is inherently a constructive dialogue. A "critique," a term that is both a noun and a verb, represents the systematical application of critical thought, a disciplined method of analysis, expressing of opinions, and rendering judgments.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#6. The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.'
William Safire
#7. Esk wouldn't have known what a collective noun was if it had spat in her eye, but she knew there was a herd of goats and a coven of witches.
Terry Pratchett
#8. Crash, from the Russian krashenina Noun: a rough fabric sometimes used to strengthen the spine of a book
Blue Balliett
#9. I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.
Richard Flanagan
#10. Prayer isn't just a noun, it's a verb too. It's an action. As long as you exercise your prayer muscles, you'll have the strength you need to do the deed.
April Erwin
#11. Love is a verb. When it becomes a noun, it's over."
from "The God Patent" by Ransom Stephens
Ransom Stephens
#13. Since we are on the topic of ravens, a collective noun for ravens is an unkindness. This is somewhat puzzling to Thought and Memory.
Diane Setterfield
#14. When we were little kids, 'friend' wasn't a verb. You didn't 'friend' someone. You had friends. It was only a noun. It didn't multitask. It was a simpler time, Hen.
Daniel Ehrenhaft
#16. God isn't a noun but a process ... a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.
Marianne Williamson
#17. It will be seen that the Infinitive is a kind of noun with certain features of the verb, especially that of taking an object (when the verb is Transitive) and adverbial qualifiers. In short, the Infinitive is a Verb-Noun.
H. Martin
#19. We talk about cancer as a noun, as if it's a one time event: 'I've got cancer.'
David Agus
#20. Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun.
Micky Dolenz
#21. ABAC'TOR, noun [Latin from abigo, ab and ago, to drive.] In law, one that feloniously drives away or steals a herd or numbers of cattle at once, in distinction from one that steals a sheep or two.
Noah Webster
#22. In that light, philosophy is not so much
or not simply
'the love of wisdom,' but instead marks the passage from wonder as a noun to wonder as a verb. Philosophy is the love of wisdom to the extent that it remains an incitement to it.
Michael Munro
#23. People take even greater umbrage when they hear themselves labeled with a common noun. The reason is that a noun predicate appears to pigeonhole the with a stereotype of a category rather than referring to them as an individual who happens to possess a trait.
Steven Pinker
#24. Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
Fred Rogers
#25. Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?
William Safire
#26. Parenting isn't a noun but a verb
an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.
Jodi Picoult
#27. It's assumed we'll be giving a present together
that's what couples are supposed to do. After a while, you become part of a proper noun. We're Daniel-and-Mandy.
David Levithan
#28. What happened when the Verb asked the noun to conjugate? She said "no-no!", forgot the "o" and decided to become a nun!
Ana Claudia Antunes
#29. To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb
Jimmy Carter
#30. 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
#31. You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.
H.L. Mencken
#32. Con-tu-ber-nal(noun). One who occupies
the same tent; a tent-fellow, comrade.
The thought of Percy Prewitt as my contubernal causes me to break out in hives.
-From the personal dictionary of
Caroline Trent
Julia Quinn
#33. I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.
Rob Sheffield
#34. A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
Elaine De Kooning
#35. Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
Glenn Greenwald
#37. He wondered what the collective noun was for psychologists: a shortage of shrinks? A confession of counsellors?
Daryl Gregory
#38. I'd have to read and escape into another world where cops don't literally mean nightstick when they say nightstick and pucker is a noun.
Nick Pageant
#39. The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.
Bell Hooks
#40. Do you know about the Turtle?" She said turtle in a way that made it sound like a proper noun. I thought of saying I know about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and didn't. It was decades too early for Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo. So I just shook my head. She
Stephen King
#41. While there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without specimens; for the noun 'writer' - the very verb 'writing' - always implies masculinity.
Joyce Carol Oates
#42. Love is not a verb. Love is a noun. Love's activity is people breathing, cells dividing, a dove taking a flight.
This grammar of life not all can see.
Mohit Parikh
#43. Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.
Veronica Roth
#44. The bank transforms itself from an agent of debt to a catalyst for distribution and circulation. Like money in a digital age, it becomes less a thing of value in itself than a way of fostering the value creation and exchange of others. Less a noun than a verb.
Douglas Rushkoff
#45. 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
#46. Love is more than a noun-it is a verb; it is more than a feeling-it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.
William Arthur Ward
#47. Economy: As an adjective, cheap; As a noun, that which compels us to render ourselves as such.
CrimethInc.
#48. The beauty of merism is that it's absolutely unnecessary. It's words for words' sake: a gushing torrent of invention filled with noun and noun and signifying nothing. Why a rhetorical figure that gabs on and on for no good reason should be central to the rite of marriage is beyond me.
Mark Forsyth
#49. Ludicrous concepts ... like the whole idea of a war on terrorism. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?
Terry Jones
#50. Presence is a noun, not a verb; it is a state of being, not doing. States of being are not highly valued in a culture that places a high priority on doing. Yet, true presence or "being with" another person carries with it a silent power.
Jay Allison
#51. "Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.
Gore Vidal
#52. Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ... We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.
Diane Ackerman
#53. I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
Robert Downey Jr.
#54. Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb.
LeCrae
#55. Writing is not a noun, it's a verb. Writing is not a destination, it's a journey. You should not write to accomplish anything but to write. Write on!
Rodney L. Carlson
#56. 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.
Bell Hooks
#57. In a modern dictionary, the noun "melancholy" has two definitions. First, it means "thoughtful or gentle sadness.
Joshua Wolf Shenk
#58. Bus factor (noun): the number of people that need to get hit by a bus before your project is completely doomed.
Brian W. Fitzpatrick
#59. Young, middle-aged, elderly, old, dead: this was how life conjugated. (No, life was a noun, so this is how life declined. Yes, that was better in any case, life declined.
Julian Barnes
#60. If you reach the age of twenty-five or thirty without knowing how to spell (TOTALLY, not TODILLY), or capitalize in the proper places (White House, not white-house), or write a sentence containing both a noun AND a verb, you're probably never going to know.
Stephen King
#61. There's only three things he mentions in a sentence
a noun, a verb, and 9/11.
Joe Biden
#62. Paradox
/pera,daks/ noun
1. Being told to wake up and come back to reality by your family and friends, while being dragged to church to hear a lesson on Jonah and the whale, followed by a sermon on believing in things you can't see without faith.
Shannon L. Alder
#63. A healthy man is not an entity; he is a process, a dynamic process. Or we can say that a healthy man is not a noun but a verb, not a river but a rivering. He is continuously flowing in all dimensions, overflowing.
Osho
#64. Ryvah (Rahy-va), noun. 1. A state of being in which your own life ceases to have value except to become a tool of fate, whose only purpose is to fight for, and if need be, die for, the absolute unconditional right to freedom and love. 2. The ultimate pursuit of freedom.
M.J. Leonard
#65. Love is a verb; an action word. Its not a noun or an adjective.
Carolyn Miles
#66. The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.
David Mitchell
#67. And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore."
"I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.
Melina Marchetta
#68. To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.
Andre Carson
#69. The word 'universe' is obviously not intended to have a plural, but science has evolved in such a way that we need a plural noun for something similar to what we ordinarily call our universe.
Leonard Susskind
#70. Love is a noun as well as a verb, a treacherous construct.
Chloe Thurlow
#71. Lumos (noun; lu-mos): 1. A spell to create light, also known as the Wand-Lighting Charm. (Origin: the Harry Potter series) 2. A nonprofit working to end the institutionalization of children. It
J.K. Rowling
#72. Love requires openness. The point is to be changed by, and to witness change in, one another. Slowly, this back-and-forth transforms the shared reality we call the world. Love is less noun than verb: not a thing to get, but a process to set in motion.
Moira Weigel
#73. 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.
Barbara De Angelis
#74. It's weird the way "finger puppet" sounds okay as a noun ... ladies.
Demetri Martin
#76. I think the best way to put it is that newspictures are the noun and the verb; our kind of photography is the adjective and adverb. The newspicture is a single frame; ours, a subject viewed in series. The newspicture is dramatic, all subject and action. Ours shows what's back of the action.
Roy Stryker
#77. acquaintance noun 1. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend.
Cynical Site
#78. I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing - a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process - an integral function of the universe.
Buckminster Fuller
#79. Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.
Criss Jami
#80. You are not really a noun; you are a verb. You are not really a person; you are a soul in action. You are your embryo, you are your baby, you are your child, you are your adult, and you are your spirit when you pass through this body through this lifetime.
Catherine Carrigan
#82. At the U of U, we were inventing a new language. One of us would contribute a verb, another a noun, then a third person would figure out ways to string the elements together to actually say something.
Ed Catmull
#83. Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.
Paul Rand
#84. Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.
William S. Burroughs
#85. Leadership- The Noun and the Verb of a Leader - The amalgamation of WHO you are as a person and HOW you conduct yourself becomes crucial...you have to play the noun and verb both !!!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#86. MOMB - noun - One who can deal with all of the INSANITY of being a MOM ... Because she's the BOMB!
Tanya Masse
#87. There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless. A philosophical doctrine is, at first, a plausible description of the universe; the years go by, and it is a mere chapter
if not a paragraph or proper noun
in the history of philosophy.
Jorge Luis Borges
#88. Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb.
Shannon L. Alder
#89. Um," I asked, "isn't the whole point about being a slave that you don't have a choice to be anything else?" Prettying up the word slave with the adjective-noun constructions makes "enslaved African" sound nonchalant. As in "Those were the cabins of the jolly leprechauns.
Sarah Vowell
#90. Art is very much a sacrament, an outward and visible sign of inward and spiritual grace. Art is not so much what we make, but how we relate to the world. Not a noun, but a verb. This puts art back in a position to be claimed by the many.
Scott W. Alexander
#91. But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether they interpreted this as a name of a substance, of a quality, or of a relation.
J.L. Austin
#92. I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.
Nick Frost
#93. Dear 2600: Please help me to learn how to become an elite one day.
The first thing to learn is never to use the word elite as a noun. In fact, don't even use it as an adjective. It's radically lame.
Emmanuel Goldstein
#94. The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.
Cathy Davidson
#95. Back when they had been teenagers who thought love was a noun, a thing you could possess.
Marcus Sakey
#96. Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
Martha Graham
#97. Noun leaders must have titles and positions. Verb leaders lead by example. Noun leaders say "listen to me" and "Obey me." Verb leaders say: :Follow me" and "Let me serve you." A movement will not survive under leaders that demand titles and positions.
Ralph W. Neighbour Jr.
#98. The simplicity of noun-verb construction is useful - at the very least it can provide a safety net for your writing.
Stephen King
#99. Compulsion: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) to force someone to do something or create an irresistible urge to behave in a certain way
Alex Lane
#100. The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
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