“The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.”

“His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.”

“Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.”

“Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.”

“Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”

“Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. The verb tunatya contains in its idea of hope something of our words 'thought,' 'desire,' and 'cause,' which sometimes must be used to translate it.”

“Love is a verb… and Verbs show action”

“Rudy Giuliani — there's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and 9/11.”

“I'm a verb, Frank. Verbs don't answer questions.”

“59: In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.”