Kim Harrison Quotes

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.

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.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

I've always loved the English language. I just like words, you know?

I love the Spanish language.

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.

Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb.

Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

Good is a noun rather than an adjective.

You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.

I believe in love the verb, not the noun.

I'm usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale/Pusha T, Meek Millz, A$AP Rocky, Drake/Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller/I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you ni**as/Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you ni**as/They dont wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you ni**as

No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.

I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.

To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

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.

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective

The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.