Nouns famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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'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 -
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 -
Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.
-- Benjamin Lee Whorf -
A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic...
-- Bill Gaede -
If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!
-- Bill Gaede -
Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.
-- Bix Beiderbecke -
I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.
-- Carl Sandburg -
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 -
You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.
-- David Levithan -
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
-- Edward Sapir -
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
-- Elaine de Kooning -
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
-- Eric Weiner -
The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
-- Fiona Shaw -
diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
-- Florence Nightingale -
Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
-- Glenn Greenwald -
"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.
-- Gore Vidal -
To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.
-- Gore Vidal -
At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
-- Janis Joplin -
His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.
-- Jennifer Crusie -
To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb
-- Jimmy Carter -
[On suicide:] It's the only cause of death that can be used as a noun to describe the dead person. If you die of cancer you are not called 'a cancer.' If someone else shoots you, you are not referred to as 'a murder.' But if you shoot yourself, you are labeled as a suicide. Your death becomes your definition.
-- Joan Wickersham -
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself.
-- Joe Tye -
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
-- John Dryden -
I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.
-- John P. Wheeler III -
I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.
-- Josh Radnor -
God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.
-- Marianne Williamson -
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
-- Martha Graham -
Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun.
-- Micky Dolenz -
I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.
-- Nick Frost -
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller -
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller -
The Hebrews have a saying that God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns; it is not so much the matter that is done, but the matter how it is done, that God minds. Not how much, but how well! It is the well-doing that meets with a well-done. Let us therefore serve God, not nominally or verbally, but adverbially.
-- Ralph Venning -
The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.
-- Theodor Adorno -
Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?
-- William Safire -
The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place,
-- William Strunk, Jr. -
A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born.
-- Yukiru Sugisaki
