The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the acceleration of this shift away from the industrial manufacturing ideology to more of a maker economy. And I also see an idea so powerful that the company name has become a verb.

You have to look at the value of different kinds of words. Adjectives weaken, and adverbs come even farther down the line. Verbs are strong; verbs and nouns.

I learned that saying you love your friends isn't enough: that love is a verb - it requires Acts of Love. It is all about the doing, not the saying, and now I make a point, every day, of emailing or phoning or making a plan with those I love.

Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.

A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on.

Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying.

You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.

Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.

Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.