Quotes About Noun
Memory is no more than the noun by which we imply that among the innumerable possible states of consciousness, many occur again in an imprecise way. - The Nothingness of Personality
~ Jorge Luís Borges
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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
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An Article is a word placed before a noun to show whether the noun is used in a particular or general sense. There are two articles, a or an and the.
~ Joseph Devlin
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Quote is a verb. Quotation is the noun.
~ Alan Lindsay
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People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security.
~ James Gosling
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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
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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
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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
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The Apostrophe To grant possession to a singular noun, simply add an apostrophe and s: The student's love of punctuation is boundless. If a plural noun that already ends in s needs to become possessive, slap a single apostrophe on the end of that word:
~ Richard Lederer
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Shit," Ku'Sox said speculatively, and he loosened his grip until my heels dragged on the floor again. "I've heard that several times now. Is that the word of choice? I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.
~ Kim Harrison
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Love can be a noun or a verb, she said.
~ Eoin Colfer
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Repertitious has not had nearly the success in entering the language that serendipitous has had, most likely because its PR team isn't nearly as good. The noun form of the latter, serendipity, was made up in the 1750s by the novelist Horace Walpole, based on Serendip (a former name for Sri Lanka). Repertitious, on the other hand, has its first mention in Thomas Blount's dictionary of 1656. Writers—1, lexicographers—0. Resentient
~ Ammon Shea
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These words have been sanitized for your protection. An adjective and a noun, respectively.
~ Libba Bray
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Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.
~ Mary Daly
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The bank transforms itself from an agent of debt to a catalyst for distribution and circulation. Like money in a digital age, it becomes less a thing of value in itself than a way of fostering the value creation and exchange of others. Less a noun than a verb.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
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the word translated "justice" and "righteousness" is the same word in Hebrew and in Greek. The root of the word becomes, in both Testaments, both a noun and a verb, so that "justice" or "judgment" is the same thing as "righteousness" or "rectification" (making right).
~ Fleming Rutledge
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A bay is a noun only if water is dead. When bay is a noun, it is defined by humans, trapped between its shores and contained by the word. But the verb wiikwegamaa—to be a bay—releases the water from bondage and lets it live.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Heaven. Now there's a thought. Nothing has ever been able, ultimately, to convince me we live anywhere else. And that heaven, more a verb than a noun, more a condition than a place, is about leading with the heart in whatever broken or ragged state it's in, stumbling forward in faith until, from time to time, we miraculously find our way.
~ Alice Walker
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Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame
~ Allen Ginsberg
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Rudy Giuliani -- there's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and 9/11.
~ Joe Biden
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Love is a verb, not a noun. It requires action; intention. In love, there is no being, only doing.
~ E. M. Walsh
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Singular and plural, noun stems and verb cases: Rex's enthusiasm for ancient Greek carries them through the worst hours.
~ Anthony Doerr
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porque o adjetivo é a alma do idioma, a sua porção idealista e metafísica. O substantivo é a realidade nua e crua, é o naturalismo do vocabulário.
~ Machado de Assis
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I've got to jump in the shower." "I'll Uber home," I said. "Do you realize you just made a noun into an intransitive verb?" I wiped my mouth. "Story of my life," I said.
~ G.M. Ford
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