Nouns quotes

Nouns

69 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar Rapper, Songwriter

"I'm usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale/Pusha T, Meek Millz, A$AP Rocky, Drake/Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller/I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you ni**as/Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you ni**as/They dont wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you ni**as"

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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist

"The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

"All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning."

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Nick Frost Actor
Nouns

"I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't."

Writing School Nouns
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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
Nouns

"The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb."

Love Is Verbs Nouns
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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
Nouns

"To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun."

Novelists Adjectives Nouns
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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
Nouns

"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."

Love Is Verbs Nouns
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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
Nouns

""Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless."

War Advertising Nouns
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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer
Nouns

"I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days."

Verbs Adjectives Nouns
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