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God is a verb, not a noun.
You can't explain Chanel. It's a verb.
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.
To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.
When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
Love is an action verb, and romance is the result of those actions.
I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.
Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.
I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.
Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
If only love can drive out hate, we have to remember that love is a verb. It requires action.
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.
I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.
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.
When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.
Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb 'return' a kind of insidious threat.
Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.
Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more traditional roles.
Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.
Adverbs, we know, are meant to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. They help us understand things more clearly, more vividly, more... morely.
Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.
You can say now, 'I dissed him' - to diss, I dissed him - or, 'Stop dissing her'. And that's the interesting thing, that it's the prefix that's become the verb! It's a most remarkable development.
'Write' is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think 'compose' is more accurate because you're trying to make the sounds in your mind and in your voice. So I compose while I'm driving or in the shower.
I learned that saying you love your friends isn't enough: that love is a verb - it requires Acts of Love. It is all about the doing, not the saying, and now I make a point, every day, of emailing or phoning or making a plan with those I love.
Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying.
Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the acceleration of this shift away from the industrial manufacturing ideology to more of a maker economy. And I also see an idea so powerful that the company name has become a verb.
A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on.
Andy wasn't capable of any complicated thoughts or ideas. Ideas need a verb and a noun, a subject. Andy spoke in a kind of stumbling staccato. You had to finish sentences for him. So Andy operated through people who could do things for him. He wished things into happening, things he himself couldn't do.
For an average noun or an average verb, an average mind can quickly create reference. Where did they hear it? See it? What does it remind them of? What is its connection? When was it last used in conversation? What has been my experience with it? A host of memories appear when you hear a word you remember.
It was not that long ago when the accepted wisdom in football was that the running game had to be established - that was always the obligatory verb: established - before passes could become effective. My, we know how that has changed. Now the pass is established from the get-go, and running is an afterthought.
'State' can be a word that is a noun or a verb or an adverb - it's kind of why I chose that title. It's not to confound the audience but to keep me from painting myself into a cul-de-sac in the early stages of making a record by having too high concept or having some really strict set of rules I have to adhere to.