Past Participle Quotes

#1. 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

#2. My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate.

Chelsea Handler

#3. 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

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

Skip Coryell

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

John Dryden

#6. 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

#7. Commit to paper precisely what you would like to have appear in your physical life. By seeing it and reading it repeatedly, you will plant that thought more firmly in your mind and you will begin to manifest that which you are imaging.

Wayne Dyer

#8. Instead, we were given the period of unusual tranquillity known as the Holocene, the time in which we live now.

Bill Bryson

#9. If there's one overarching theme in "Guys Read", it's the simple but important message: "read what you like, when you like, whatever that happens to be.

School Library Journal

#10. Present-day science, conventional medicine, and the mindset of 'better living through chemistry' have delivered their results, and they are less an excellent. Essentially, due to poor results, these methods no longer reign supreme.

David Wolfe

#11. 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

#12. You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

Roy Lichtenstein

#13. 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

#14. I love making books for children. Big kids, little kids, old kids and new.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#15. 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

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

Virginia Woolf