Participle Quotes

#1. It wasn't fair that men got the verbs and she ended up with adjectives. Jack plotted and squeezed and bulldozed. She was caught snooping - pathetic participle, half verb, half adjective.

John Casey

#2. Look at him, he's slain another dangling participle.

Skip Coryell

#3. Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

John Dryden

#4. I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.

Colum McCann

#5. Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle, like going and doing and crusading and worrying.

Nora Ephron

#6. I'm checking my pockets for spare words and sentences but I'm finding none, not an adverb, not a preposition or even a dangling participle because there doesn't exist a single response to such an outlandish request.

Tahereh Mafi

#7. AGHAST (AGHA'ST) adj.[either the participle of agaze,(see AGAZE) and then to be written agazed, or agast,or from a and gast, a ghost, which the present orthography favours; perhaps they were originally different words.]Struck with horrour, as

Samuel Johnson

#8. The present participle is the Devil himself, she thought, now that we are in the place for believing in Devils.

Virginia Woolf

#9. Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.

Evan Esar

#10. I thought I was investing in myself and my brand, like Kim Kardashian. When she buys these clothes, she's investing in herself, because she is a big brand and is likable. I thought I had that potential. My ego got too big. To think I could be someone like that when I was the most hated girl ever.

Heidi Montag

#11. Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much.

Alice Moore Hubbard

#12. You cannot just switch football on and off; it's intense. There were times when I probably shouldn't have got involved in certain things and said certain things, but you feel that sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe. Maybe the supporters looked to me to stand up as well.

David Dunn

#13. How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!

Thomas Hood

#14. This whole thing happened because I got up last night, because my cat got hungry and I had to go find a fork, and I stumbled into that conference room and saw Will and Ling and their cop friend messing with a severed hand." Budd said, "A severed what?" and Andre said, "Your cat eats with a fork?

David Wong

#15. Never believe your eyes

Clive Barker

#16. attitude of BTL is a real thorn in the side.

Lan Sluder

#17. One of the main problems with brain injuries is the brain is trying to send signals to the muscles in the rest of the body, but these signals are scramvled

Amy Rankin

#18. Most of the best hires that I've made in my entire life have never done that thing before.

Sam Altman

#19. During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.

Maureen Corrigan

#20. If you have the choice between the right thing and the wrong thing, the right way is always less stressful.

Jennifer Lawrence