Top 97 Verbs Quotes & Sayings

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.

Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You know the ones: Was, did, had, made, went, looked... One-size-fits-all looks like crap on anyone. Sew yourself a custom made suit. Pick a better verb. Challenge all those verbs to really lift some weight for you.

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.

So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs.

We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be.

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.

For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea - we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation.

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.

If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well used verbs is the main trouble with modern English writing. Almost all nonfiction nowadays is written in a sort of pale, colorless sauce of passives and infinitives, motionless and flat as paper.

I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.

Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.

Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.

Love is a verb and verbs show action

Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.

Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb.

He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs.

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.

I am a verb. I am that I amNouns exist because there is a created universe and physical reality, but if the universe is only a mass of nouns, it is dead. Unless 'I am', there are no verbs, and verbs are what makes the universe alive

The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and deaf to language development do you have to be? If you don’t like nouns becoming verbs, then for heaven’s sake avoid Shakespeare who made a doing-word out of a thing-word every chance he got. He TABLED the motion and CHAIRED the meeting in which nouns were made verbs

You know what would help the instruction form? Verbs! Verbs would be nice! Because they help you get to the end of a thought!

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.

Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver. After all, it exists for a reason.

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

The verbs that are used for people who write quickly are almost never flattering.

I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.

The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.

There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.

The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.

Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.

Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.

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.

Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses.

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.

You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.

There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there is literally nothing.

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.

Verbs. All of them tiring.

I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue; What had been one was many sounding minded.

Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen.

After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.

They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.

To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums upon the concoction; the fatal human tendency to say things straightforwardly must be detected and defeated by adroit reversals; and, if a glimmer of meaning yet remain under close scrutiny, it must be removed by replacing all the principal verbs by paraphrases in some dead language.

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.

No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.

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.