Top 198 Irregular Verbs Quotes & Sayings

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

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

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

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...

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

I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.

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.

And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.

Americans will not buy irregular-looking or oddly shaped vegetables!

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

Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be asked about cosmology or sub-nuclear physics or human biology or evolution than they are to be asked about irregular Greek verbs or the danger of the patripassionist heresy. If we monotheists are going to go around claiming that our "God made the heaven and the earth," it is not unreasonable to expect us to know something about what that heaven and earth actually are.

So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs.

After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart.

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.

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

It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.

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

In 2012, when I left MTV, irregular income started.

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.

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.

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

Canada is lucky enough to be protected both by oceans and by a southern neighbor that is very careful about its migration and its borders. So, we don't have the irregular flow that Europe has been having to deal with. But because of that, people here have seen that welcoming people, helping them to integrate, is actually a tremendous benefit to local economies. It creates jobs, innovation and opportunity. One of the things that comes with that, though, is stemming the flow of irregular migration. But you can't just create barriers - you also have to work with the countries of origin.

Verbs. All of them tiring.

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

I model irregular clothing.

In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.

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

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

Viewed as a geometric figure, the ant's path is irregular, complex, and hard to describe.

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

The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.

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.

Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.

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

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

I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.

Love is a verb and verbs show action

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

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

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

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

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

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

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

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

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.

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.

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.