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The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

If we had a girl, my wife wanted to call her "Sue" -- a lovely name, but which for Jews is generally a verb...

Dennis Wolfberg

Don't you DARE use party as a verb in my shop.

Dylan Moran

There's a whole outdoor living trend. If it has a verb in it, you can do it outside - exercising, cooking, dining, entertaining and now working in the outdoor office. If we can do it outside, we're outside.

Susan Mccoy

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

Mark Twain

I think I am a verb.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The Internet is super for the theoretical/dreaming/communicating of ideas side of this wonderful pastime, but "gardening" is a verb, and getting dirt under the old fingernails can't be done by computer. I don't see that it could ever change real "gardening".

David Hobson

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

Martha Graham

She was once described as an action verb disguised as a person.

Richard Brodhead

Mr. Phillips said he didn't want a conventional art museum. His favorite verb was 'to linger,' meaning to spend time and listen, to learn the vocabulary of the painting. This is something you don't want to mess with.

Jay Gates

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

Bill Owens

If there were a verb meaning 'to believe falsely,' it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Potlatch is also a verb. We're going to 'potlatch' everyone.

Tina Kuckkahn

It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb, said, "They all feed one another," and called it good.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman