Verb Quotes

St Michael`s was one of those very rarefied, very Anglo-Catholic establishments where they rejoiced in more religious paraphernalia and theatricality than the entire Vatican. More incense-swinging, more crucifixes, more gold tassels, more rose petals, more holy mothers, more God knows what. Three times a day they played the Angelus. When you heard it, you had to stop whatever you were doing, do the Hail Marys in your head, and then return to what you were doing. Like it would come in the middle of a Latin class. I`m just conjugating the love verb, amo, amas, amat, and doingggg! you have to stand up, go through the whole Angelus, mother-of-God thing and then crack on with amamus, amatis, amant. Sir! Because, if you didn`t, Whack! Cane. Belt. Education by fear. And the really funny thing was they wouldn`t tolerate bullying between peers. Prefects could bash you with a slipper, but you weren`t allowed to give each other a rough time. Like who do you think you are? You haven`t yet earned the privilege of being violent.

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.

My son said, `Mother you can`t say the word bigot because that has to do with nationalities and things.` I said, `No darling, it`s a verb. It means I can`t stand these people who are trying to take the Ten Commandments off the wall, take prayer out of school and take prayer out of football games.` It`s too ridiculous. The Lord put this country together or we wouldn`t be like we are.

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

Marriage is not a noun; it`s a verb. It isn`t something you get. It`s something you do. It`s the way you love your partner every day.

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

When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.

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

God is a verb.