Top 36 Is Not A Noun Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Is Not A Noun

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

Eric Weiner

#5. I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

Robert Downey Jr.

#6. 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

#7. In reality, love is fluid; it's a verb, not a noun.

Sharon Salzberg

#8. 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

#9. Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.

Mortimer Adler

#10. 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

#11. '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

#12. Love is a verb; an action word. Its not a noun or an adjective.

Carolyn Miles

#13. The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.

David Mitchell

#14. 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

#15. Most of the people who have verbally asserted that 'there is no master of pronounciation' have intentionally made a claim and unintentionally made their claim believable. (It is 'pro-nun-ciation' not 'pro-noun-ciation'.)

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#16. God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#17. 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

#18. Free will (noun):
A delusional idea that humans are in control of their own destiny and not subject to the benevolent rule of The One Who Is The One.

James Patterson

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.

Veronica Roth

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

Elaine De Kooning

#25. To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb

Jimmy Carter

#26. Life is a verb, not a noun.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#27. Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?

William Safire

#28. The greatest relationships are those in which love is not treated as a noun, but as a verb; with romance not viewed as a burden, but lived as a poem.

Steve Maraboli

#29. 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