Substantives Quotes

#1. Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

Florence Nightingale

#2. Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh
To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?

Thomas Hood

#3. I'm the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch.

R.D. Ronald

#4. Courage was not a given; it was acquired, earned.

Cornelia Funke

#5. Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean.

Annie E. Clark

#6. Once people begin to roll their eyes and gently tell you that you're crazy, laugh with gratification. When you're a scientist, it means that you're doing it right.

Hope Jahren

#7. What the mind forgets is that the ability to respond is the basis of life. If the ability is acknowledged willingly, you become blissful. If it happens unwillingly, you become miserable. Being

Sadhguru

#8. Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.

Leslie Nielsen