Verbification 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. Most "original" ideas aren't completely original, but instead are the result of two basic methods for generating ideas: problems in search of solutions and solutions in search of problems.

Barry Nalebuff

#3. Few things are as potentially difficult, frustrating, or frightening as genuine learning, yet nothing is so rewarding and empowering.

Adam Robinson

#4. If they can't repeat it, they didn't get it.

Sam Horn

#5. During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

Carl Jung

#6. Certainly it's nice to have historic moments like this but eventually somebody will break this record. We're aiming for the end result, otherwise the rest is useless.

Fabio Capello

#7. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing [ ... ] and you will find all manner of dishonor.

Khaled Hosseini

#8. Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against the privileged they are overthrown.

Peter Kropotkin

#9. Listen to your conscience. You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life.

Frank Sonnenberg

#10. What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. Now another illusion has been stripped from my eyes and I feel as if there wasn't such a thing as real true friendship in the world.

L.M. Montgomery

#12. I'd have to, if on Sunday I wanted to run
off with some "slack-jawed Suzy," some "invertebrate," a "post-pubescent
wasteoid who imagines the Khmer Rouge to be makeup and Guerrilla Warfare
to be that rivalry which occurs between apes.

Marisha Pessl

#13. Men display less self-doubt and lead with what seems always like a sense of force and direction. We are not as familiar with women leaders, and so we question their skills. As women, we always need to work harder to prove our competence.

Maureen Chiquet

#14. In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends,
To reap the harvest of perpetual peace
By this one bloody trial of sharp war.

William Shakespeare

#15. If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing, keep behind him.

G.K. Chesterton