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Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality. -- Georges Bataille
A word is an abstract image, the imaginary thing, or, in so far as everything is ultimately an object of the thinking power, it is the imagined thought: hence men, when they know the word, the name for a thing, fancy that they know the thing also. -- Ludwig Feuerbach
If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word. -- Dave Barry
Vocabulary spills I'm ill. -- Nas
A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive. -- Anthony Burgess
The word is a violent pleasure. -- Gwen Calvo
Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb. -- Shannon L. Alder
that word. He was twenty-eight years old and -- Melody Anne
The word "superstar" is an ilusion -- Bruce Lee
A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language. -- Giacomo Leopardi
You're like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want first -- Aaron Withers
Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary. -- Ambrose Bierce
Widow. The word consumes itself. -- Sylvia Plath
A sitcom. I hate that word. -- Angela Lansbury
Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object. -- Gilles Deleuze
I believe in love the verb, not the noun. -- Greg Behrendt
The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft. -- Monique Wittig
Atomize and refigure the word. -- Christopher H. Sartisohn
The soul is a verb. . . . Not a noun. -- David Mitchell
The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function. -- Theodor Adorno
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. -- John Dryden
What is another name for a Thesaurus? -- Steven Wright
Ah, yes. Fine. A lovely sounding word that means absolutely nothing. -- Robin Benway
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. -- Stephen King
the one Word that rips apart the day... -- Thomas Pynchon
Okay, I should probably mention right here that Brandon used the real word, but this is my story, so I'm cleaning it up a little. -- Rachel Hawkins
It's a darn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. -- Andrew Jackson
He wondered what the collective noun was for psychologists: a shortage of shrinks? A confession of counsellors? -- Daryl Gregory
The trouble with dictionaries is, they tell you more about words than you want to know without answering the question you have. -- Andy Rooney
Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs. -- A.b. Guthrie Jr.
Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective. -- Rob Bell
You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something. -- H.l. Mencken
We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck. -- Jon Stewart
HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. -- Ambrose Bierce
ATTRIBUTE, TERM, SUBJECT, PREDICATE, PARTICULAR, UNIVERSAL
charmingly useful, if any friend should happen to ask if you have ever studied Logic. Mind you bring all seven words into your answer, and you friend will go away deeply impressed
'a sadder and a wiser -- Lewis Carroll
1. Form the possessive singular of nouns with 's. -- William Strunk Jr.
The Word ought to be exposed in the words -- Karl Barth
A healthy man is not an entity; he is a process, a dynamic process. Or we can say that a healthy man is not a noun but a verb, not a river but a rivering. He is continuously flowing in all dimensions, overflowing. -- Osho
Use the smallest word that does the job. -- E.b. White
There are two words for everything. -- E. V. Lucas
Words take on many different meanings. -- Erin Mckean
Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable. -- William S. Burroughs
The destructive potential of language is contained within the very nature of representation. Words, particularly nouns, force an infinite of unique objects and processes into a finite number of categories. -- Charles Eisenstein
singular, familiar state of cognizance. -- John Riha
Net - the biggest word in the language of business. -- Herbert Newton Casson
The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun. -- David Mitchell
Life is a verb, not a noun. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech. -- Jasper Fforde
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image. -- Elaine De Kooning
Ah, yes, well that's the problem with the English language, isn't it? All the words mean different things. -- Alex Shvartsman
Dictionary of Misunderstood Words -- Milan Kundera
Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous. -- Frank Herbert
Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape. -- Robert Barry
Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun. -- Sheryl Sandberg
When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other. -- Donald Hall
Get thee to a dictionary and be relentless about your visits there. p. 591 -- Mark Z. Danielewski
Lepidopterists give the noun a gerund's push toward the verb, and say that butterflies are nectaring ... -- Sue Hubbell
A word is a small song. -- Larry Good
Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. -- Ambrose Bierce
Something made out of words... -- Matthew Small
The world! It is a word capable of as diverse interpretations or misinterpretations as the thing itself a thing by various people supposed to belong to heaven, man, or the devil, or alternatively to all three. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
The world is full of incomprehensible words -- Haruki Murakami
It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word. -- Henry De Montherlant
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Thankful. Blessed. Loved. -- Lanina King
People take even greater umbrage when they hear themselves labeled with a common noun. The reason is that a noun predicate appears to pigeonhole the with a stereotype of a category rather than referring to them as an individual who happens to possess a trait. -- Steven Pinker
The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon. -- Peter Marshall
Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands. -- Eric Sevareid
A guy whose name has become its own verb, and synonymous with trouble. -- Nicole Williams
Strange, the Hebrew noun which means "I am", The English always use to govern damn. -- George Gordon Byron
All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant. -- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
That which endures forever; it is released from nebulous name-giving. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love. -- Tahereh Mafi
Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe. -- Mary Norris
Rat. A curse, an insult, a word totally without light. -- Kate Dicamillo
A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing. -- Susan Sontag
Love is more than a noun-it is a verb; it is more than a feeling-it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing. -- William Arthur Ward
Some things defy language itself. -- Sylvain Reynard
There are objects you may desire but cannot explain. There are objects that are not nouns, there are actions that are not verbs. There are things we want that exist at the edge of the forest, at the rim of the ocean, just over the hill, just out of sight. -- Charles Yu
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed. -- Hamish Bowles
Marriage...it's not a word, it's a sentence. -- Rodney Dangerfield
A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance. -- Stefan Zweig
Words are themselves organisms, ... -- Ali Smith
Love is a verb; an action word. Its not a noun or an adjective. -- Carolyn Miles
Sometimes you linger days
upon a word,
a single, uncontaminated drop
of sound; for days
it trembles, liquid to the mind,
then falls:
mere denotation
dimming the undertow of language. -- John Burnside
A word is a magic thing. It holds the essence of an object or idea and pins it to the world. A word can set a universe in motion. -- Kelly Barnhill
Everyone uses their own dictionary. -- Robert Jacoby
A word is a lot. -- Etgar Keret
You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information. -- W. Edwards Deming
Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
Don't hate the word, playa; hate the dictionary. -- Brian Celio
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. -- Stephen Fry
When you catch an adjective, kill it. -- Mark Twain
Don't repeat this word again -- Unknown
So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't try to defile the English language. I can think of a few other things I'd rather dirty up. -- S.l. Jennings
Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say:;: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Words Are The Ones Used To Degrade And Demean Another Human Being -- Karlyle Tomms
I think the word is adult! -- Graham Norton
