Substantiv / Noun Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Substantiv / Noun:

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

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

Fiona Shaw

Think Tank, noun: The shower.

Craig Bruce

We talk about cancer as a noun, as if it's a one time event: 'I've got cancer.'

David Agus

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

Benjamin Whorf

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.

Nick Frost

A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is.

Derek Walcott

The word 'universe' is obviously not intended to have a plural, but science has evolved in such a way that we need a plural noun for something similar to what we ordinarily call our universe.

Leonard Susskind

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Mortimer Adler

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Marianne Moore

God is a verb, not a noun.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Martha Graham

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Robert Downey, Jr.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

Edward Sapir

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

Josh Radnor

The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.'

William Safire

I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.

Hamza Yusuf

Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in denoting the object, it also assigns to it some quality or characteristic.

John Wesley Powell

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

bell hooks

I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.

Richard Flanagan

'State' can be a word that is a noun or a verb or an adverb - it's kind of why I chose that title. It's not to confound the audience but to keep me from painting myself into a cul-de-sac in the early stages of making a record by having too high concept or having some really strict set of rules I have to adhere to.

Todd Rundgren

There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.

Walter Murch