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God is a verb, not a noun.

R. Buckminster Fuller
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Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
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Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.

Sheryl Sandberg
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We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.

Stephen Fry
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Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

C.S. Lewis, Letters to Children
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What happened when the Verb asked the noun to conjugate? She said "no-no!", forgot the "o" and decided to become a nun!

Ana Claudia Antunes
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What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.

Terry Jones
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Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.

Criss Jami, Killosophy
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The keeping of lists was for November an exercise kin to repeating of a rosary. She considered it neither obsessive nor compulsive, but a ritual, an essential ordering of the world into tall, thin jars containing perfect nouns. Enough nouns connected one to the other create a verb, and verbs had created everything, had skittered across the face of the void like pebbles across a frozen pond. She had not created a verb herself, but the cherry-wood cabinet in the hall contained book after book, jar after jar, vessel upon vessel, all brown as branches, and she had faith.

Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest
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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Marianne Moore
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