Top 100 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. You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.
David Levithan
#3. 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
#5. Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe.
Jason Silva
#6. When I said.
A rose is a rose is a rose.
And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what
did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed
a noun.
Gertrude Stein
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.
Lorrie Moore
#10. Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun.
Mark Forsyth
#11. I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.
Kim Harrison
#12. 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
#13. All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.
Joseph Devlin
#14. 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
#15. Crash, from the Russian krashenina Noun: a rough fabric sometimes used to strengthen the spine of a book
Blue Balliett
#16. Living is a verb, not a noun. Joy is found in living our life not just having a life.
Melissa Heisler
#18. I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.
Richard Flanagan
#19. 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
#20. A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on.
Deborah Moggach
#22. Faith is not just something you have. Faith is something you do. It can turn a noun into a verb quicker than you can say, See Spot run.
Beth Moore
#24. I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be Christian or something could be Christian. But it just can be and is.
Rob Bell
#25. One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
Edward Sapir
#26. Love is a verb. When it becomes a noun, it's over."
from "The God Patent" by Ransom Stephens
Ransom Stephens
#27. Both noun (eusebia) and verb (sebizo) derive from the Greek root seb-, which refers to the awe that radiates from gods to humans and is given back as worship. Everything related to this root has fear in it.
Sophocles
#28. Pyrokinesis: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) to generate or manipulate heat
Alex Lane
#29. This poor gambler isn't even a noun. He is kind of an adverb.
Stephen Crane
#30. AB'ACOT, noun The cap of State, formerly used by English Kings, wrought into the figure of two crowns.
Noah Webster
#31. Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.
E.B. White
#32. MOMBIE - noun - Suffers from forgetfulness, fatigue, exhaustion, moodiness, sleeplessness, confusion and moments of insanity!
Has difficulty eating or drinking anything while it's still hot and peeing alone.
Tanya Masse
#35. Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
John Dryden
#36. There are worlds / in which nothing is adjective, everything noun.
Jane Hirshfield
#38. 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
#39. 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
#41. God isn't a noun but a process ... a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.
Marianne Williamson
#42. 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
#44. I'm going to give you a sentence, a full sentence with a noun and a verb and a possible agitate. I don't like all these judges running around with their half baked sentences, thats how you get salmonella poisoning.
Michael Buckley
#45. We talk about cancer as a noun, as if it's a one time event: 'I've got cancer.'
David Agus
#46. Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun.
Micky Dolenz
#47. If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.
J. Anthony Lukas
#48. What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.
Terry Jones
#50. 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
#51. ABAD'DON, noun [Hebrew Chaldee Syriac Samaritan to be lost, or destroyed, to perish.] 1. The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit. Revelation 9. 2. The bottomless pit. Milton.
Noah Webster
#52. She was convinced a word existed, a noun, that meant the loss of feelings for someone who was formerly loved - a word for the act of falling out of love. I said I couldn't think of it. It wasn't in the dictionary either, not the one she wanted.
Olivia Sudjic
#53. Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.
Mary Daly
#54. Squee." 1 (verb): To emit an onomatopoetic girlish swooning sound out of pure fanboy adulation. 2 (noun): the sound itself.
Neil Patrick Harris
#55. Crap talk; Noun. A condition where one's insecurities come spilling out of his mouth making him look like an unconfident idiot.
Dan Pearce
#56. 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
#57. Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
Ambrose Bierce
#58. The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
#59. If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!
Bill Gaede
#60. Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take people to whom we have nothing to say off our hands, and sometimes even ourselves.
Etienne Bonnot De Condillac
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Strange, the Hebrew noun which means "I am", The English always use to govern damn.
George Gordon Byron
#64. 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
#65. Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?
William Safire
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb
Jimmy Carter
#71. 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
#72. You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.
H.L. Mencken
#73. 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
#74. In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).
Barry Mazur
#75. When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.
Donald Hall
#76. I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.
Rob Sheffield
#77. A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
Elaine De Kooning
#78. Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
Glenn Greenwald
#80. He wondered what the collective noun was for psychologists: a shortage of shrinks? A confession of counsellors?
Daryl Gregory
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. And then he was silent; and from far above they heard the sounds of crows flying, cawing angrily. "Crows. Family Corvidae. Collective noun," intoned Mr. Croup, relishing the sound of the word. "a murder.
Neil Gaiman
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.
Veronica Roth
#88. 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
#89. I should start with an apology to Rudy Giuliani. I said every sentence Rudy utters has a noun, a verb, and 9/11 in it. I was wrong. He called me to tell me after Pat Robertson's endorsement, there's an Amen in every sentence he says too.
Joe Biden
#90. Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
Gloria Steinem
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Celerity: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) increasing the mobility or swiftness of movement
Alex Lane
#94. Economy: As an adjective, cheap; As a noun, that which compels us to render ourselves as such.
CrimethInc.
#95. 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
#96. Mindy Lujan with her feathered hair, bullying blue-lined eyes, and potty mouth that rivaled Akhil's, managing to use fuck as a verb, an adjective, and a noun, often in the same sentence, as in, "Who the fuck does that fucking fuck think she's fucking with?
Mira Jacob
#97. Destiny, noun: 1. The inevitable or irresistible course of events. 2. The inescapable future. 3. See also screwed.
Seanan McGuire
#98. Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.
Patti Digh
#99. 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
#100. To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.
Gore Vidal
