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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
Garrison Keillor
Wind
Beginning
Enough
Circles
Talk
Until
Call
Sort
Around
Verbs
Subjects
End
Get
Ends
Far
Away
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
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.
Janet Fitch
People
Everything
Run
Atomic
Atomic Bomb
Most
Verbs
Stocking
Use
Explosion
Describe
Twenty
Bomb
Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs.
Denise Fleming
Love
You
Words
Try
Picture
Action
Books
Right Words
Idea
Picture Books
Verbs
Lot
Just
Use
Right
Many companies that become verbs actually end up modifying our behaviors, and companies that modify behaviors end up becoming behemoths.
Om Malik
Become
Our
Verbs
Becoming
End
Up
Behaviors
Modify
Modifying
Companies
Many
Actually
I know I have difficulties with some verbs. But if they get me, they get me. And if they don't understand me, they don't understand me.
Thalia
Me
Difficulties
Some
Know
Understand
Verbs
Get
A truly empowered woman turns her values into verbs. She understands what she values most, and she takes steps to bring that value to life.
Margaret Trudeau
Life
Woman
Value
Values
Takes
Steps
Most
She
Empowered
Verbs
Understands
Truly
Turns
Her
Bring
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
Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.
Daniel H. Wilson
Work
Strange
Facebook
Generation
Dangerous
Perspective
Google
Own
Our
Introduced
Cosmos
Previous
New
New Generation
Verbs
Builds
Left
New Perspective
Behind
Want
Gaining
Places
Grandmothers
Tweet
Each
Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.
Juan Felipe Herrera
You
Sometimes
Easier
Like
Verbs
Than
Spanish
English
Things
I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on.
Mark Pincus
Life
Time
Path
Live
Think
Our
Kind
Invented
Online
Make
Make Up
Verbs
Been
Mobile
Up
Us
Unique
Lives
Imagined
The verbs that are used for people who write quickly are almost never flattering.
Laura Lippman
People
Write
Never
Almost
Verbs
Quickly
Flattering
Used
Who