A Quote by Benjamin Whorf

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

Benjamin Whorf

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Benjamin Whorf
American - Scientist
April 24, 1897 - July 26, 1941

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

Stephen Fry

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

All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

Maya Angelou

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Marianne Moore

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

William P. Young

There's nothing wrong with possessions; it's just that they have value to us only when we use them, engage them, and enjoy them. They're nouns that mean something only in conjunction with verbs. That's why wealth is so dangerous: if you're not careful you can easily end up with a garage full of nouns.

Rob Bell

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

J. Patrick Lewis

Like Pinter and Orton, the writer, Clive Exton, catches the poetry of modern everyday speech, which, whether we like it or not, includes four-letter words used as verbs, nouns, adverbs and adjectives. But, God, is it difficult to learn.

Sheila Hancock

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

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Maggie Stiefvater

Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful tough monosyllables like "gasp" and "cry." Nouns are the next most important. Adjectives tend to be useless.

Donald Hall

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Jennifer Crusie

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

Henry Watson Fowler

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

Joni Eareckson Tada

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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