Verb Tense Quotes

#1. She's my wife. (Stryker)
Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. 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

#3. From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating family. It's about creating offspring.

Aasif Mandvi

#4. There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child.

Asa Don Brown

#5. He didn't care about the others anymore. The chaos around him seemed to siphon away his humanity, turn him into an animal. All he wanted was to survive, make it to that building, get inside. Live. Gain another day.

James Dashner

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. I have said that I cannot explain my desire for her, and it is true. I loved her with a love thirsty and desperate. I felt that we two might commit some act so atrocious that the world, seeing us, would find it irresistible.

Gene Wolfe

#9. I'm drunk but truthful.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. Working 9 to 5 is structure. But tying lines together all hours of day is structure at its best performing magic.

C.C. Wyatt

#11. ..they were always asking me lots of questions. Questions I didn't want to answer. They wanted to get to know me. Yeah, well, I wasn't interested in being known. I wanted to buy a t-shirt that read: I AM UNKNOWNABLE.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#12. Your Journey makes your dreams beautiful. You have the power to make every moment in your dreams to be beautiful. You always have a choice. You think beautiful things and let it be as manifested dreams.

Diana Rose Morcilla

#13. A WAR COMES ALWAYS to someone else.

John Steinbeck

#14. Only in the present tense is the subject married to its verb. The action - all action, past and future - comes at the end. At the very end, when there is nothing left to do but act.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#15. Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?

Melina Marchetta

#16. Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.

C.J. Cherryh

#17. I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.

Laurie Notaro

#18. To write good history is the noblest work of man.

John Dickson Carr

#19. His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

Patricia Briggs

#20. He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

James Joyce

#21. Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!

Ruben Dario