Robert Downey, Jr.
Actor, Producer
"I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb."
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Franz Liszt
Composer, Pianist
"In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be."
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"
Martha Graham
Dancer, choreographer
"Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place."
Meg Whitman
Business Executive
"When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable."
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"If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary."
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"I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun."
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"In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR... It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction."
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"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."
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"They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs."
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"Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up."
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"To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums upon the concoction; the fatal human tendency to say things straightforwardly must be detected and defeated by adroit reversals; and, if a glimmer of meaning yet remain under close scrutiny, it must be removed by replacing all the principal verbs by paraphrases in some dead language."
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"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."
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"The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs."
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"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."
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"Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail."
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"Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular."
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"Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude."
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"Consider incompleteness as a verb."
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"The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do ."
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"Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb."
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"[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably."
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"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."
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"The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God."
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"Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever."
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