Top 100 Verb Quotes
#1. Love requires openness. The point is to be changed by, and to witness change in, one another. Slowly, this back-and-forth transforms the shared reality we call the world. Love is less noun than verb: not a thing to get, but a process to set in motion.
Moira Weigel
#2. I manage a toast to the Christmas tree
and one to the sweet absurdity
in the miracle of the verb to be.
Lucky you, lucky me.
Miller Williams
#3. J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel ... from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.
Ambrose Bierce
#5. I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
Robert Downey Jr.
#6. In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."
Arthur Eddington
#7. Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
Ada Yonath
#10. The verb "to be" here means to generate your own presence, your real presence.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#11. If you make every sentence an exclamation or put every verb in 'bold,' then nothing stands out.
Michael S. Horton
#12. The real greatness tends to be a verb much more than an adjective, and it's a duty preceding been an honour.
Ammar Moussa
#13. Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb.
LeCrae
#14. Faith is revelation. And in order to receive revelation you have to be open. Belief is about closing yourself off
a lie you tell yourself to make the world fit in with how you've decided it should be. Real faith is an action - a verb. It's truth unfolding.
Nafisa Haji
#15. It's one thing to be in love; it's another to act because of love. Love is a noun - a feeling you have - and it's also a verb, something you do.
Rob Bell
#16. Writing is not a noun, it's a verb. Writing is not a destination, it's a journey. You should not write to accomplish anything but to write. Write on!
Rodney L. Carlson
#17. Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
Mortimer Adler
#18. 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
#19. Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb 'return' a kind of insidious threat.
John Burnham Schwartz
#20. 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
#21. Pastrami, of Romanian origin, is dried, spiced, and salted beef, smoked over hardwood sawdust and then steamed. The name may come from pastra, the Romanian verb "to preserve.
Mark Kurlansky
#22. I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
Yoko Ono
#23. 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
#24. God,' he said, 'I have to have you.'
'Take me. Own me. Use me. Pick a verb. Just please.'
'Fuck you. I'm going to fuck you. That's my verb.
C.D. Reiss
#25. How can I say 'I love you', if I know the love is you .. the word 'love' either as a verb or a noun would be destroyed in front of you
Jacques Derrida
#26. "Balance" as a verb doesn't mean "stillness," but the constant act of making minor corrections from one side to another to bring one towards a center of stability.
Brenda Strong
#27. I am the King. I tell. I am not told. I am the verb, sir. I am not the object. (King George III)
Alan Bennett
#28. Passive voice is better than writing out a humongous number and taking the risk that your readers' brains will be numb by the time they get to the verb.
Mignon Fogarty
#29. But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.
Bell Hooks
#30. 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
#31. Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.
Clive James
#32. My relationship stays strong because I serenade her with my actions and I write poetry in her heart with my deeds. My endless love is expressed with more than just my words; my love is lived as a verb.
Steve Maraboli
#33. My life itself couldn't very conceivably be less Zenful than it is, and what little I've been able to apprehend - I pick that verb with care - of the Zen experience has been a by-result of following my own rather natural path of extreme Zenlessness.
J.D. Salinger
#34. [On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.
Abby May Alcott
#35. In wondered in avenging was being used as an adjective or a verb.
David Levithan
#36. Writing is better if it's kept simple. Every sentence doesn't need to have perfect noun/verb agreement. I've said 'ain't' on the air. Because I sometimes use 'ain't' when I'm talking.
Stuart Scott
#37. This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.
Maria Semple
#38. (Should I be an a**hole and say that "quotes" is a verb? ... I think I just did.)
Na
#39. 'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.
Artie Shaw
#40. Modern western man has some basic misconceptions about the nature of happiness. The origin of the word is instructive: happiness stems from the root verb to happen, which implies that our happiness is what happens.
Robert A. Johnson
#41. Everybody can be great ... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#42. I just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning.
Louis C.K.
#43. If you reach the age of twenty-five or thirty without knowing how to spell (TOTALLY, not TODILLY), or capitalize in the proper places (White House, not white-house), or write a sentence containing both a noun AND a verb, you're probably never going to know.
Stephen King
#44. 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
#45. The DNA of the novel - which, if I begin to write nonfiction, I will write about this - is that: the title of the novel is the whole novel. The first line of the novel is the whole novel. The point of view is the whole novel. Every subplot is the whole novel. The verb tense is the whole novel.
Mary Kay Zuravleff
#46. There's only three things he mentions in a sentence
a noun, a verb, and 9/11.
Joe Biden
#47. 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
#48. My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb.
Dennis Wolfberg
#49. As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.
Val McDermid
#50. A healthy man is not an entity; he is a process, a dynamic process. Or we can say that a healthy man is not a noun but a verb, not a river but a rivering. He is continuously flowing in all dimensions, overflowing.
Osho
#51. 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
#52. The verb 'highly favored' (Luke 1:28) is the same as 'made us accepted' in Ephesians 1:6, referring to all of God's children. All true believers have been 'highly graced' by the Lord.
Charles Spurgeon
#53. Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!
Andrea Gibson
#54. I know we were conjugating the verb love like two maniacs trying to fuck through an iron gate.
Henry Miller
#55. Love is a verb; an action word. Its not a noun or an adjective.
Carolyn Miles
#56. The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.
David Mitchell
#57. The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.
William Ralph Inge
#58. Faith is a verb. An action, like love, that we do and live every day.
Joan L. Mitchell
#59. When your mother starts using the word "party" as a verb about her kid, that's absolutely crazy.
Dennis Miller
#61. That's the past tense, Tom,' returned Mr. James Harthouse, striking the ash from his cigar with his little finger. 'We are in the present tense, now.' 'Verb
Charles Dickens
#62. You are a livingness, a verb. What is arising in you, at this moment, is the great realization.
Christopher Zzenn Loren
#63. The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give'
Billy Graham
#64. He was making it obvious that something was wrong - that Adam's presence was throwing him off.
"Uh, Marquis. We were going to food." Because that was a verb. "I mean, get food."
"He's gone."
"Yes."
Monosyllables. Monosyllables were good.
Santino Hassell
#65. It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb and said, "They all feed one another," and called it good.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#66. Information is currency ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.
Lynda Obst
#67. And what do you like about this word, brave?" "I like that it's derived from a verb," El answers. "Brave isn't something you are. It's something you do. It comes from action. I appreciate that.
Cynthia Hand
#68. To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.
Andre Carson
#69. The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
Victor Hugo
#70. Love is a noun as well as a verb, a treacherous construct.
Chloe Thurlow
#71. A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
Thomas Carlyle
#73. Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.
David Orr
#74. Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' ... he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way) is a mortal sin. The writer is now exposing himself in earnest, using a word that distracts and can interrupt the rhythm of the exchange.
Elmore Leonard
#75. 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
#76. And pretty is not even the right word. She burns. She's a verb.
Max Gladstone
#77. I am not Death. I am killing; I am the verb, I am the action, I am the performance.
John Scalzi
#78. Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb.
Shannon L. Alder
#79. Matter. noun: what we're made of; the very stuff of the universe. verb: to command your contribution to the substance composing everything; to be.
Laurie Perez
#80. Love is the action verb of life, and of the heart.
Chris Vonada
#81. '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
#82. If you've used adverbs, look at them carefully. Adverbs are the weakest words; verbs are the strongest. Many, many times I've found that I have the wrong verb so I'm attempting to cheat and modify the wrong verb by using an adverb.
Chris Offutt
#83. Art is very much a sacrament, an outward and visible sign of inward and spiritual grace. Art is not so much what we make, but how we relate to the world. Not a noun, but a verb. This puts art back in a position to be claimed by the many.
Scott W. Alexander
#84. When my mother passed away several years ago - well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn't 'pass away.' She died. Something about that verb, 'to pass away' always sounds to me as if someone just drifted through the wallpaper. No, my mother did not pass away. She definitely died.
Steve Allen
#85. Lepidopterists give the noun a gerund's push toward the verb, and say that butterflies are nectaring ...
Sue Hubbell
#86. Glory to the logos, my friends! Long live dialectics! Let the party begin! May the verb be with you!
Laurent Binet
#87. The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
William Ralph Inge
#88. I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating.
Madeleine Thien
#89. I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in "I have cumberbatched the UK audience" apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It's crazy and fun and very flattering.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#90. This is not the time to be passive. This is the time to shape, sculpt, paint, participate ... the time to get sweaty, to get dirty, to fall in love, to forgive, to forget, to hug, to kiss ... this is the time to experience, participate and live your life as a verb.
Steve Maraboli
#92. 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
#94. She's my wife. (Stryker)
Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#95. The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.
Cathy Davidson
#96. Many dog owners believe that as much as 60 percent of their pet's brain is set aside solely to demonstrate applications of the verb "to eat"-in both the active and passive forms.
Stanley Coren
#97. Few now would associate de-roofing with the police, but the verb 'to detect' originated in detegere - a detective raises the roof, figuratively.
Lucy Sussex
#99. What had she learned about verbs? In the past and future tenses, the verb came at the end. And in the present it followed the subject. Wherever she went it tailed her. She dragged it behind like a sack of stones.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#100. Noun leaders must have titles and positions. Verb leaders lead by example. Noun leaders say "listen to me" and "Obey me." Verb leaders say: :Follow me" and "Let me serve you." A movement will not survive under leaders that demand titles and positions.
Ralph W. Neighbour Jr.
