
“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.”
A collection of quotes on the topic of noun, verb, likeness, thing.
“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.”
Source: Jargon der Eigentlichkeit [Jargon of Authenticity] (1964), p. 6
“The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.”
Source: Anger: Aim It in the Right Direction
“You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.”
“His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.”
Source: Charlie All Night
“I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.”
Source: Love Is a Mix Tape
Source: Adverbs (2006), Truly
Context: If you follow the diamond in my mother's ring from Africa to Germany to California to Arizona to Wisconsin, in the heel of a grandmother, in the beak of a magpie, in the gravel of the path, in someone else's novel, in the center of the earth where the volcanoes are from, you would forget the miracle, the reason diamonds end up in people's fingers in the first place. it is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes, it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. It is the way love gets done despite every catastrophe.
“I believe in love the verb, not the noun.”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“Return”, p. 55.
The Teachings of Don. B: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays of Donald Barthelme (1992)
Source: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 33-43 as cited in: Militiadis Lytras, Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos, Ernesto Damiani (2011) Semantic Web Personalization and Context Awareness. p. 111
Grady Booch (2006) " On design https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/gradybooch/entry/on_design?lang=en" cited in: Frank Buschmann, Kevlin Henney, Douglas C. Schmidt (2007) Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, On Patterns and Pattern Languages. p. 214
“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/)
“Nouns and verbs carry writing.”
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 58
Source: Die Mathematik die Fackelträgerin einer neuen Zeit (Stuttgart, 1889), p. 37.
Source: On Human Communication (1957), Words and Meaning: Semantics, p.122
Source: Structured analysis (SA): A language for communicating ideas (1977), p. 16.
“News Headline Noun String Length World Record Breaker Runner-Up”
Referring to a BBC article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13905331 with the headline "Breast Cancer Prostate Drug Hope"
from Best of the Web Today for June 27, 2011 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304447804576411740143493006.html
Acceptance speech on receiving the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award in 1989, as quoted in "Gregory Peck, a Star of Quiet Dignity, Dies at 87" by William Grimes in The New York Times (13 June 2003)
S.K. Chatterji (1926) in: S.K. Chatterji. " Visva-manah Vak-pati http://books.google.nl/books?id=9x-Peh32rw8C&pg=PA124" in: Rabindranath Tagore: A Centenary. S. Radhakrishnan eds. Sahitya Akademi. 1990. p. 124
The Observer http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,901052,00.html, February 23, 2003.
An Analytical Study of 'Sanskrit' and 'Panini' as Foundation of Speech Communication in India and the World
"Poetry and Grammar"
Lectures in America (1935)
Source: 1960s, Scientific method: optimizing applied research decisions, 1962, p. 108 as cited in: Charles West Churchman, Richard O. Mason (1976) World modeling: a dialogue. p. 23.
Page 96.
A Grammar of the English Language (1818)
"Poetry and Grammar"
Lectures in America (1935)
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
Language Education in a Knowledge Context (1980)
Whorf (1937) "Grammer categories" in: Language, (1945) Vol 21. p. 1-11.
Source: 1990s, Screening History (1992), Ch. 1: The Prince and the Pauper, pp.2-3
Pavle Ivić in: "Linguistics".
"The Macedonian State" p.12-13)
“God, to me, it seems
is a verb,
not a noun,
proper or improper.”
No More Secondhand God (1963)
1960s
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 4
Source: Philosophical Papers (1979), p. 73.
“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 Seem to Be a Verb (1970)
1970s
Source: Language, thought and reality (1956), p. 61.
“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
“Never go to war with a noun. You will always lose.”
"CC US History: The 1960 in America", referring to "War on Poverty", but also several later concepts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkXFb1sMa38&index=41&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s
YouTube
The Sounds of Taqwa (2006)
Context: When it comes to "Islam" — I look at the word as the verbal noun it is: an action word. I see Islam as something someone does, not something someone "belongs to". I believe that "religion", as the world commonly knows it today, is a divisive factor in community. When I was about 15 years old, I renounced a belief in the importance of "religion", seeking rather to find answers to life's questions. My spiritual quest has always been to bring me closer to my purpose in life, a better relationship with the force that brought me into existence, and how to relate to fellow human beings. When I was 17, I started reading scriptures from around the world and the more I read the more commonality I saw between them all. When I discovered the Qur'an at the age of 20, it seemed to be the most organic in its message. I got out of "religion" and got into life. To this day, I renounce a trust in the institutions of "religion".
Watts on Wiggles Waves http://wigglesandwaves.blogspot.nl/2004/12/watts-on-wiggles-waves.html, used in the Cosmosis track No Such Thing (2007).
Source: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 33-43 as cited in: Militiadis Lytras, Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos, Ernesto Damiani (2011) Semantic Web Personalization and Context Awareness. p. 111
The Cultivation of Conspiracy (1998)
Context: The impending loss of spirit, of soul, of what I call atmosphere, could go unnoticed.
Only persons who face one another in trust can allow its emergence. The bouquet of friendship varies with each breath, but when it is there it needs no name. For a long time I believed that there was no one noun for it, and no verb for its creation. Each time I tried one, I was discouraged; all the synonyms for it were shanghaied by its synthetic counterfeits: mass-produced fashions and cleverly marketed moods, chic feelings, swank highs and trendy tastes. Starting in the seventies, group dynamics retreats and psychic training, all to generate "atmosphere," became major businesses. Discreet silence about the issue I am raising seemed preferable to creating a misunderstanding.
Then… I suddenly realized that there is indeed a very simple word that says what I cherished and tried to nourish, and that word is peace. Peace, however, not in any of the many ways its cognates are used all over the world, but peace in its post-classical, European meaning. Peace, in this sense, is the one strong word with which the atmosphere of friendship created among equals has been appropriately named. But to embrace this, one has to come to understand the origin of this peace in the conspirator, a curious ritual behavior almost forgotten today.
1960s, Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool (1967)
Context: This man was a fool because he failed to realize his dependence on God... this man-centered foolishness is still alive today. In fact, it has gotten to the point today that some are even saying that God is dead. The thing that bothers me about it is that they didn't give me full information, because at least I would have wanted to attend God's funeral. And today I want to ask, who was the coroner that pronounced Him dead? I want to raise a question, how long had He been sick? I want to know whether He had a heart attack or died of chronic cancer. These questions haven't been answered for me, and I'm going on believing and knowing that God is alive. You see, as long as love is around, God is alive. As long as justice is around, God is alive. There are certain conceptions of God that needed to die, but not God. You see, God is the supreme noun of life; He's not an adjective. He is the supreme subject of life; He's not a verb. He's the supreme independent clause; He's not a dependent clause. Everything else is dependent on Him, but He is dependent on nothing.