Noun Quotes

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun. Yoko Ono

Art Thought Rather Verb Than Noun

Love isn't a perfect state of caring. It's an active noun, like 'struggle.' Fred Rogers

Love Struggle Active State Caring Perfect Like Noun

God is a verb, not a noun. R. Buckminster Fuller

God Verb Noun

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. R. Buckminster Fuller

God Me Proper Seems Verb Noun

Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether it's feminist writer, Jewish writer, Russian writer, or whatever. Alice McDermott

You Before Whatever Way Adjective Some Russian Writer Put Limiting Feminist Any Going Whether Noun Jewish

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. Ambrose Bierce

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb. Andre Carson

People Some People Power Others Some Verb Noun

We talk about cancer as a noun, as if it's a one time event: 'I've got cancer.' David Agus

Time Cancer One Time About Talk Got Noun Event

You have to look at the value of different kinds of words. Adjectives weaken, and adverbs come even farther down the line. Verbs are strong; verbs and nouns. Ethan Canin

You Words Strong Value Different Kinds Down Weaken Adjectives Kinds Come Look Verbs Line Different Noun Farther Even

I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable. Hamza Yusuf

War Think Unacceptable Abstract Idea Noun

If I can see my own recollections, like many adolescents, I was a Platonic realist. I believed in the reality of ideas, of the big nouns, and believed that one's life was determined by the ideas of the true, the good, and the beautiful which one held. Lawrence Kohlberg

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure. Mortimer Adler

Time You Synonymous Verb Nor Leisure Noun

I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write. Richard Flanagan

Believe Someone Write Writer Verb Am Noun Compelled

'State' can be a word that is a noun or a verb or an adverb - it's kind of why I chose that title. It's not to confound the audience but to keep me from painting myself into a cul-de-sac in the early stages of making a record by having too high concept or having some really strict set of rules I have to adhere to. Todd Rundgren

Myself Me Word Strict Painting Too State Rules Adhere Kind High Record Some Having Concept Verb Audience Making Stages Title Confound Really Noun Keep Chose Why Early Set

There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge. Walter Murch

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do. Maya Angelou

For an average noun or an average verb, an average mind can quickly create reference. Where did they hear it? See it? What does it remind them of? What is its connection? When was it last used in conversation? What has been my experience with it? A host of memories appear when you hear a word you remember. Javed Akhtar

You Memories Conversation Experience Remember Word Mind Has-Been See Host Remind Verb Does Hear Been Reference Quickly Did Where Them Average Create Used Noun Connection Appear Last

I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense. P. J. O'Rourke

Together Language Feeling Sense Spend I Can Some Bears Kneeling Days Likeness Make Around Verbs Squash Sentence Noun Reason

The word deepfake has become a generic noun for the use of machine-learning algorithms and facial-mapping technology to digitally manipulate people's voices, bodies and faces. And the technology is increasingly so realistic that the deepfakes are almost impossible to detect. Ben Sasse

Technology People Impossible Word Become Realistic Increasingly Detect Faces Voices Almost Generic Manipulate Bodies Use Noun

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