Top 150 Noun Quotes & Sayings

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

I believe in love the verb, not the noun.

Fail is a verb not a noun, most people think that when they fail, they become a noun and call themselves failures. People have to learn from their mistakes just as children learn to ride bicycles by falling off bicycles. Mistakes can be priceless if we are willing to learn from them because the price to becoming rich is the willingness to make mistakes and learn from them without blaming or justifying

Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb.

Any noun can be verbed.

How can an adjective in front of a noun not describe the noun? There are dwarf stars, but they're still considered stars.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.

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

The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.

A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points of actions, cross sections cut through actions, snapshots. Neither can a pure verb, an abstract motion, be possible in nature. The eye sees noun and verb as one, things in motion, motion in things.

If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

Art is a Verb, not a Noun.

It's weird the way "finger puppet" sounds okay as a noun... ladies.

Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle.

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

When the copulative kai [`and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal description, respecting office, dignity, affinity, or connexion, and attributes, properties, or qualities, good or ill], if the article [ho], or any of its cases, precedes the first of the said nouns or participles, and is not repeated before the second noun or participle, the latter always relates to the same person that is expressed or described by the first noun or participle: i.e. it denotes a farther description of the first-named person.

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

I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.

Hyacinth,” Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, “do try to speak in complete sentences.” Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression. “Biscuits. Are. Good.” She cocked her head to the side. “Noun. Verb. Adjective.” “Hyacinth.” “Noun. Verb. Adjective.” Colin said, wiping a crumb from his grinning face. “Sentence. Is. Correct.

Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.

Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only which will describe it. One must search until one has discovered them, this noun, this verb, this adjective, and never rest content with approximations, never resort to trickery, however happy, or to vulgarism, in order to dodge the difficulty.

Jason Sudeikis said an SNL go-to for naming people was: regular first name, noun last name. My noun was Beard.

To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb

Mother is a verb, not a noun.

God is a verb, not a noun.

We've shown the entertainment industry what social media is capable of doing for a movie. 'Sharknado' is now a noun.

Mind is a verb not a noun.

We all have some proper noun to blame.

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

Good is a noun rather than an adjective.

Think Tank, noun: The shower.

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

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

Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.

Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11

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

Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.

God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.

"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.

Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?

I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in that way. It's one of the most common phenomena about words. They start as one thing, and they end up as something else.

Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.

A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.

Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.

The concept of why is already in the vernacular. It is now a noun. "That company doesn't know their why." "They need to learn their why." "That politician needs to understand his why." We talk about it as a noun. That never existed prior to 2009. That never existed prior to 2006 when I first started articulating it. This is the most amazing thing to me. It has now become a concept. It's part of the way we think about businesses and transactions and decisions.

The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!