Verbed Quotes

#1. Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying.

Erin McKean

#2. Any noun can be verbed.

Alan Perlis

#3. In English every word can be verbed.

Alan Perlis

#4. In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Alan Perlis

#5. You may include things you believe to be crucial in a design, but those elements are often only crucial to you.

Hillman Curtis

#6. I saw you happy. Happier than you've been in a long time. With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high.

Simone Elkeles

#7. Each book you read is a new world, a new dimension, a new reality. Where will you go today?

Paul J. Coggins

#8. We know of no other event like it in the history of the world, except perhaps the first confrontation in Europe between the neolithic peoples who came from the East and the primitive hunters. But no witness ever wrote of that great drama.

Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

#9. A hallmark of domestic violence is a man feeling threatened by a woman's friends and attempting to control or limit a woman's social contacts, or to isolate her socially.

John M. Gottman

#10. Friends you have, people you love, die and are born again.

Sherwood Anderson

#11. A person who takes a walk of 100 feet and a person who walks 2,000 miles have one major thing in common. They both need to take a first step before they take a second step.

Zelig Pliskin

#12. Advertisements constitute the only 'good news' in the newspaper.

Marshall McLuhan

#13. Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#14. The truth has a way of changing people's plans.

Veronica Roth

#15. People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.

Marilyn Manson

#16. Freebase? What's free about it?

Richard Pryor

#17. Do not forget the Heavenly Father.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to act, so that was a fun conversation with the parents. I truly have some of the greatest parents ever.

Jacob Artist

#19. There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

Loni Anderson