Verb For Quotes

#1. We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Erin McKean

#2. Doldrums, n.
The proper verb for depression is sink.

David Levithan

#3. Among the Haida Indians of the Pacific Northwest, the verb for "making poetry" is the same as the verb "to breathe."
Such tidbits of ethnic lore delighted Amanda, and she vowed from that time onward she would try to regulate each breath as if she were composing a poem.

Tom Robbins

#4. Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

Frederick Busch

#5. You could hear the stereo from the downstairs neighbors just fine. They were playing Metallica. Playing isn't really the right verb for Metallica, I guess. Grinding, maybe. Extruding.

Rick Riordan

#6. 'Write' is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think 'compose' is more accurate because you're trying to make the sounds in your mind and in your voice. So I compose while I'm driving or in the shower.

Robert Pinsky

#7. There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion. That's interesting to me. You act compassionately. But then, how to act compassionately if you don't have compassion? That is where you fake. You fake it and make it. This is the mantra of the United States of America.

Dayananda Saraswati

#8. Why write poetry? For the weird unemployment. / For the painless headaches, that must be tapped to strike / down along your writing arm at the accumulated moment. / For the adjustments after, aligning facets in a verb / before the trance leaves you. For working always beyond / your own intelligence.

Les Murray

#9. In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR ... It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction.

John Steinbeck

#10. To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, inertly: Shakespeare's mirror is all that is needed for it. But by imitation we enlarge nature itself, we become nature or we discover in ourselves nature's active part.

William Carlos Williams

#11. If love was magic you wouldn't be amazed, you much rather look at reality in a daze. see love is merely a four letter phrase, It's here It's there it may never change. For love is a verb an action, a zing, It is never a person place or thing.

Aja Taylor

#12. It was the English word she used. It was in English that the past was unilateral; in Bengali, the word for yesterday, kal, was also the word for tomorrow. In Bengali one needed an adjective, or relied on the tense of a verb, to distinguish what had already happened from what would be.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#13. The Greek word for "thanks" is the verb of the Greek noun for grace! Giving thanks is a spontaneous outflow of seeing that grace which was given to you in Christ Jesus.

Rudi Louw

#14. Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love the verb ...

Stephen Covey

#15. If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then you don't really believe in it. Faith is a verb.

Kellen Roggenbuck

#16. I'm going to have to come up with a new word for "excited". Something preferably a verb that describes the simultaneous actions of jumping up and down squealing giggling and generally scaring the hell out of the cats. I'll call it vrasting.

This morning I vrasted.

Josie

#17. Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

Bill Owens

#18. You meant evil against me," Joseph told his brothers, using a Hebrew verb that traces its meaning to "weave" or "plait." "You wove evil," he was saying, "but God rewove it together for good."

God, the Master Weaver.

Max Lucado

#19. Come on, just say, "I do." It comes from the verb "to do." That's all you need for now. Then we'll move you on to "I did.

Steve Toltz

#20. The simplicity of noun-verb construction is useful - at the very least it can provide a safety net for your writing.

Stephen King

#21. German wasn't good for conversation because you had to wait to the end of the sentence for the verb, and so couldn't interrupt.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#22. Too often, I hear newspaper folk lament that people "should" pay for their news. I have never seen a successful business model built on the verb "should," nor on tradition, entitlement, virtue or what a journalist most wants to do.

Mark E. Briggs

#23. I'd like to invoke the Native American Navajo because their word for road is used as a verb. Their whole relationship to road has to do with how you travel it, who you are traveling it with, what the environment might be, where you're headed, in what direction, the weather and so on.

Anne Waldman

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Some websites are completely optimized for simple conver- sion, and it's easy to tell. The design centers on one clear call to action, a vivid lozenge labeled with a verb.

Erika Hall

#27. We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.

Henry A. Kissinger

#28. Someone has written, Love is a verb. It requires doing -not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.

David B. Haight

#29. The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

William C. Brown

#30. Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

Michael Shermer

#31. Give a man a proverb
and he'll muse for a moment.
Teach a man to find the verb in every proverb
and he'll walk in wisdom for a lifetime.

Cameron Semmens

#32. (Ibid. on using the verb to be in this culturally envenomed way, too, as in 'I'll Be There For You,' which has become the sort of empty spun-sugar shibboleth that communicates nothing except a certain unreflective sappiness in the speaker.

David Foster Wallace

#33. Jelly-bean is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular- - I am idling, I have idled, I will idle

F Scott Fitzgerald

#34. Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

Flann O'Brien