Intransitive Verb Quotes

#1. Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.

Jonathan Raban

#2. It is a notably obscene crime of our language that educate is not an intransitive verb.

Benjamin Hale

#3. Will you stand up an fight? he wondered bitterly. Or do you intend to remain on your knees for ever?

Paul Stewart

#4. Charlie Manx laughed, the big, hoarse hee-haw of a country shithead who has just heard a joke involving a kike, a nigger, and a feminist.

Joe Hill

#5. I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing.

George Woodcock

#6. A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

Edmund Burke

#7. Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

William Shakespeare

#8. Well, there were definitely elements of my rise in radio that had to do with my being black. But going back as far as Walter Winchell, Army Archerd and Hedda Hopper, legendary wags would grab a radio microphone and talk about what Errol Flynn and other stars were up to.

Wendy Williams

#9. Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

Bill Gates

#10. Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.

Bill Hicks

#11. Let's have another bottle of 'cham,'" said Captain Clutterbuck, when their dinner was nearly over. "'Cham' is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

Anthony Trollope

#12. I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

Angelina Jolie