Verb Quotes

• God is a verb, not a noun.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • God
  • Verb
  • Noun

• The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Word
  • Verb

• Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Waiting
  • German
  • Thrill

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

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Strong
  • Verb
  • Noun

• Consider incompleteness as a verb.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Consider
  • Verb
  • Incompleteness

• Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Sentence
  • Majesty
  • Verb

• At the U of U, we were inventing a new language. One of us would contribute a verb, another a noun, then a third person would figure out ways to string the elements together to actually say something.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Language
  • Contribute
  • Verb

• The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do .

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Things
  • Verb
  • Conjugation

• The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb. I want the verb to be educate, or activate, or engage, or confront, or defy, or create.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Change
  • Create
  • Girls

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

  

  Elaine de Kooning
  • Painting
  • Image
  • Verb

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

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Faith
  • Verb
  • Noun

• In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).

  

  Barry Mazur
  • History
  • Verb

• If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it.

  

  Betty Eadie
  • Kindness
  • Love Is
  • Verb

• My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb.

  

  Dennis Wolfberg
  • Family
  • Wife
  • Daughter

• I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Trust
  • I Wish
  • Verb