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“Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take people to whom we have nothing to say off our hands, and sometimes even ourselves.”

“A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic.”

Lines Infinite Infinity Mathematician Location Magician Adjectives Nouns Continuum

Author:Bill Gaede

“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!”

Ifs Fronts Physics Articles Verbs Nouns

Author:Bill Gaede

“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.”

Way Honesty Active Truthful Passive Verbs Nouns Being Truthful

Author:Joe Tye

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

Thinking Hero Heroic Verbs Nouns

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

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

Verbs Tissues Nouns Conjunctions

Author:Eric Weiner

“What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?”

Ifs Body Action Common Dignity Increase Substance Nouns

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.”

Used Drama Theater Used To Be Verbs Nouns

Author:Martha Graham

“Think Tank, noun: The shower.”

Thinking Showers Tanks Nouns

Author:Craig Reucassel

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

Verbs Nouns

Book:Living Faith

Source: Living Faith

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

Light Process Creative Trust In God Living Things Commitment To God Intimacy With God Servant Of God Lecturer Greatness Of God God Within Us Nouns Mighty God

Author:Marianne Williamson

“To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.”

Mean Together Wall Balls Bounce Adjectives Nouns Pronouns Adverbs

Author:Maya Angelou

“Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe.”

States Certain Understanding Pleasure Brain Intellectual Intense Muscles Awe Sensations Overwhelming Topics Exhilarating Nouns Proximity Involuntary Contractions

Author:Jason Silva

“A trick I picked up from reading Frank Miller scripts: ... He tended to always start his panel caps sometimes with a general noun and a verb. 'He weeps,' and then there'd be whatever else. And a couple of collaborators of mine have always said that the first sentence of my script is for them, and everything else that comes after is for me. Which is true, that's very much how I try to write. The first line is just to get the physical action down, and then I'll kind of drift off into whatever else I see in my head and they can take it or leave it.”

Writing Trying Firsts Kind Said Sometimes Action Reading Lines Mines Couple Down And Scripts Sentences Tricks Frank Caps Verbs Nouns Collaborators

Author:Matt Fraction

“Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.”

Language Europe Metaphysical Verbs Nouns

Book:Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf

Source: Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf

“Anti-Zionists, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are counters, not coins; that the wise man looks through them to reality. This counsel many anti-Zionists seem to have neglected. They are especially disturbed by the two nouns nationalism and commonwealth, and by the adjective political. And yet these terms on examination are not at all upsetting.”

“Mother is a verb, not a noun.”

Inspirational Mother Verbs Nouns

Author:Shonda Rhimes

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

Three Sentences Three Things Verbs Nouns

Author:Joe Biden

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

States Perfect Love Is Struggle Caring Active Here And Now Nouns Mr Perfect

Book:You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

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

Love Is Words Rapper Verbs Nouns

Author:LeCrae

“God is a verb, not a noun.”

Verbs Nouns

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

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