“His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.”
Jennifer Crusie (1949) American writer
Source: Charlie All Night
Democratic primary debate (October 30, 2007)
2000s
“His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.”
Jennifer Crusie (1949) American writer
Source: Charlie All Night
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
“A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.”
Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989) American painter
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 <br class="br">1950 - 1971
“Nouns and verbs carry writing.”
Roger Kahn (1927–2020) American baseball writer
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 58
“I believe in love the verb, not the noun.”
Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“The president said some words, like nouns and verbs.”
Ze Frank (1972) American online performance artist
http://www.zefrank.com/wiki/index.php/the_show:_06-15-06
"The Show" (www.zefrank.com/theshow/)
“God, to me, it seems
is a verb,
not a noun,
proper or improper.”
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
No More Secondhand God (1963)
1960s
“You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
“The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.”
Joni Eareckson Tada (1949) American artist
Source: Anger: Aim It in the Right Direction
“Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.”
Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book
Source: Lost in a Good Book