Noun Quotes
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God , to me, it seems is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun proper or improper. See Hugo 421:83.
— 1940 Poem, published in No More Secondhand God (1963).
It is my opinion that while the word bisexual may have its uses as an adjective, ... it is not only useless but mendacious when used as a noun.
— John Malone, Straight Women/Gay Men
Rudy Giuliani there's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and 9/11.
joseph ("joe") biden— Democratic primary debate (October 30, 2007)
When I said. "A rose is a rose is a rose." And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do? I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.
Gertrude Stein— "Poetry and Grammar"
"It is my opinion that while the word bisexual may have its uses as an adjective, . . . it is not only useless but mendacious when used as a noun."
— John Malone, Straight Women/Gay Men
To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.
gore vidal— Ch. 1: The Prince and the Pauper, pp.2-3
The noun lila means anything from sport, dalliance , play to any languid or amorous gesture in a woman .
— V.S. Apte (1965), quoted in in Sri Aurobindo’s Lila - The Nature of Divine Play According to Integral Advaita, p.68
Long before Savage successfully campaigned to turn anti-gay Senator Rick Santorum's last name into a hilariously insulting noun, Landers laid the groundwork for such subversive political activism.
— Sullivan, Catey (June 5, 2008). "No question: 'Answer lady' is utterly perfect". The Antioch Review (Pioneer Press).
silver bullet (SIL-vuhr BOOL-it) noun: A quick solution to a thorny problem. [From the belief that werewolves could be killed when shot with silver bullets.] "Writing code, he (Stuart Feldman) explains, is like writing poetry: every word, each placement counts. Except that software is harder, because digital poems can have millions of lines which are all somehow interconnected. Try fixing programming errors, known as bugs, and you often introduce new ones. So far, he laments, nobody has found a silver bullet to kill the beast of complexity."
— Survey: The Beast of Complexity; The Economist (London, UK); Apr 14, 2001.
But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether they interpreted this as a name of a substance, of a quality, or of a relation.
j. l. austin— p. 73. (Philosophical Papers, (1979))
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
john dryden— John Dryden, Sixth Satire of Juvenal, line 583.
