Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.
Life is a verb, not a noun.
A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb.
We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.
You only need a heart full of grace
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.
Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.
Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.
So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs.
Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen.
A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.
Mother is a verb, not a noun.
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.
God is a verb, not a noun.
In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.
Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior.
Knowledge needs to be a verb.
I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.
I think there simply comes a point at which you're beating your head against the wall with revision, when you're making something different but not better. For me, revision usually has more to do with making the language prettier, finding clearer images, using more active verbs.
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.
The whole life lies in the verb seeing.
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