No More Secondhand God (1963)
1960s
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
“His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.”
Source: Charlie All Night
“Nouns and verbs carry writing.”
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 58
“A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.”
as quoted in "It is", No.4, Autumn, 1959 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79463183&referer=brief_results Magazine for Abstract Art, Second Half Publishing Co., New York pp. 29,30
1950 - 1971
“I believe in love the verb, not the noun.”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“The president said some words, like nouns and verbs.”
http://www.zefrank.com/wiki/index.php/the_show:_06-15-06
"The Show" (www.zefrank.com/theshow/)
“You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.”
“The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.”
Source: Anger: Aim It in the Right Direction
“Rudy Giuliani — there's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and 9/11.”
Democratic primary debate (October 30, 2007)
2000s
I Seem to Be a Verb (1970)
1970s
