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Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.
...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.
I just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning.
Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.
Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
She’s my wife. (Stryker) Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra)
The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb.
Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.
Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.
She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.
Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.
If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.
When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.
A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
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.
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.
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.
You know what would help the instruction form? Verbs! Verbs would be nice! Because they help you get to the end of a thought!
Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat.
There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.
There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.
They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.
In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."
The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.
Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself.
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.
If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!
I know I have difficulties with some verbs. But if they get me, they get me. And if they don't understand me, they don't understand me.
Many companies that become verbs actually end up modifying our behaviors, and companies that modify behaviors end up becoming behemoths.
The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.
A truly empowered woman turns her values into verbs. She understands what she values most, and she takes steps to bring that value to life.
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.
The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.
I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.
Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs.
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.
We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.