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Quotes About Verb

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
~ Edward Sapir
Love is an action verb, and romance is the result of those actions.
~ Chris Sullivan
If only love can drive out hate, we have to remember that love is a verb. It requires action.
~ Steve Stoute
Rhyme said, "'Game' is a noun. I don't accept it as a verb. But I will concede that many people use it. The Jargonites, I call them.
~ Jeffery Deaver
German wasn't good for conversation because you had to wait to the end of the sentence for the verb, and so couldn't interrupt.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Obsession comes from the latin verb that means to besiege.
~ Jeffrey M. Schwartz
I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three.
~ Unknown
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
~ Victor Hugo
I always knew that grief was something I could smell. But I didn't know that it's not actually a noun but a verb. That it moves.
~ Victoria Chang
Il verbo adatto alla gioia: cominciare.
~ Peter Handke
In wondered in avenging was being used as an adjective or a verb.
~ David Levithan
it's our turn, you know—to join the student welfare committee of the university. . . .' Oh no, thought Pran, there goes one day every week. '. . . and I have decided to volunteer you.' I didn't know the verb was transitive, thought Pran.
~ Vikram Seth
I manage a toast to the Christmas treeand one to the sweet absurdityin the miracle of the verb to be.Lucky you, lucky me.
~ Miller Williams
Few now would associate de-roofing with the police, but the verb 'to detect' originated in detegere —a detective raises the roof, figuratively.
~ Unknown
Love is not a thought; it is an action verb. It is not a thing, but an expression. You can't love in a vacuum; love demands an object. It demands a relationship. "N
~ Joel Salatin
A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.
~ Unknown
When you say I love you, you are making a promise with someone else's heart. You should honor it with actions to prove it. Love is not only an emotion, love is a verb.
~ Unknown
He's instructed the boys to conjugate the verb 'incarcerate': the repeated hard c sound seems to scrape at the walls of the room, as if the very words themselves are seeking escape.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
I am not Death. I am killing; I am the verb, I am the action, I am the performance.
~ John Scalzi
Well, love don't count one rass unless it's a verb.
~ Unknown
Before we came to believe humans were so important before this awful loneliness. Can molecules recall it? what once was? Before anything happen? No I, No we, No one. No way. No verb. No noun. only a tiny dot brimming with is is is is is is All everything home.
~ Marie Howe
When Christianity turns into a noun, it becomes a turnoff. Christianity was always intended to be a verb. And, more specifically, an action verb. The title of the book of Acts says it all, doesn't it? It's not the book of Ideas or Theories or Words. It's the book of Acts. If the twenty-first-century church said less and did more, maybe we would have the same kind of impact the first-century church did.
~ Mark Batterson
When a German dives into a sentence, you won't see him again until he emerges at the other end with the verb between his teeth.
~ Mark Twain
Love, like a verb, is an action word. It is better shown, than heard from the mouth of people who you can't tell what there heart says.
~ Unknown