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Quotes About Verb

Adverbs, we know, are meant to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. They help us understand things more clearly, more vividly, more... morely.
~ Faith Salie
I remember him (I have no right to utter this sacred verb, only one man on earth had that right and he is dead) with a dark passion flower in hand, seeing it as no one has ever seen it, though he might look at it from the twilight of dawn til that of evening, a whole lifetime.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Gilgal is connected to the verb "roll" ("g-l-l"), perhaps to undermine the original connotation of a circle of standing stones, seen as forbidden divine images
~ Adele Berlin
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
~ Adrienne Rich
Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence
~ Adrienne Rich
Here is God's purpose — for God, to me it seems, is a verb — not a noun, proper or improper...
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
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
I began to live in love as a state of being. It was as if love was no longer a verb with an object. In that state, I simply became a loving being, an emitter of love. It's a two-way street: as you become a loving being, the Universe is loving you. You are at home in the universe. hOMe, hOMe on the range.
~ Ram Dass
Le verbe lire ne supporte pas l'impératif. Aversion qu'il aime partager avec quelques autres : le verbe « aimer »Ã¢â'¬Â¦ le verbe « rêver »Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Daniel Pennac
The word "kenning" comes from the Old Norse verb kenna, which is also a "seeing=knowing" metaphor, meaning "to know, recognize, or perceive." The etymology survives in words meaning "to know" in various Scandinavian languages as well as in German and Dutch. Kenna is also the source of the English "can" as well as the somewhat arcane "ken," as found in the expression "beyond my ken," meaning "beyond my knowledge.
~ James Geary
Quote is a verb. Quotation is the noun.
~ Alan Lindsay
Why indeed must "God" be a noun? Why not a verb... the most active and dynamic of all? MARY DALY THEOLOGIAN
~ Julia Cameron
'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
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
~ Aberjhani
Greek normally uses a singular verb when the subject is neuter plural. It is an indication that the writer is viewing the plural subject not as a collection of items but as a single group.
~ William D. Mounce
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).
~ Barry Mazur
whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
~ Mark Twain
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
What happened when the Verb asked the noun to conjugate? She said "no-no!", forgot the "o" and decided to become a nun!
~ Ana Claudia Antunes
The Russian verb is weak in tenses, strong in Aspects. [...] These aspects are in the very blood of the Slav. [...] These aspects I believe to be of profound psychological significance and this significance has not I think so far been fully understood.
~ Jane Ellen Harrison
Aspect or quality of a verb had, I believe, nothing originally to do with time; aspect in fact cuts clean across time. Aspect in most languages is now at least indicated for the most part by adverbs. I run — quickly; I stand — still; in this sense many verbs have hundreds of aspects.
~ Jane Ellen Harrison
When people say they're frustrated, it's actually a verb. When people say "I have doubts," they've turned the verb into a noun and made it so that it becomes an event or a thing. When people say, "I have frustration," they don't actually have a bucket of frustration. They're in the process of being frustrated. That is an activity. When you turn it back into an activity, you can find out so much more about it.
~ Richard Bandler
With this access point, God becomes more a verb than a noun, more a process than a conclusion, more an experience than a dogma, more a personal relationship than an idea. There is Someone dancing with you and you no longer need to prove to anyone that you are right, nor are you afraid of making mistakes. Another word for that is faith.
~ Richard Rohr
Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.
~ Lynda Obst