Verbs Quotes

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

Ralph Steadman
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.

Sean M. Carroll

He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the

H. G. Wells
- Up
- Struggle
- Service
Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

Soren Kierkegaard
Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.

Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
Mother is a verb, not a noun.

Shonda Rhimes
- Verbs
- Nouns
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.

Evelyn Underhill
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.

Benjamin Lee Whorf