#noun

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#nouns #obsessed #very

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. ↗

— Hu Shih

#announced #begin #classical #experiments #friends

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#crave #craving #follow #get #itself

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

#cannot #denouncing #falsehood #truth #without

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language. ↗

— John Strachan

#before #complied #delivered #discourse #drowned

I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#billion #came #decision #his #i

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud! ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

#know #loud #pronounce #say #word

What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years? ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#being #deportation #etc #get #go

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#august #best #boulevard #ever #hollywood

Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us. ↗

— George Takei

#before #box #box office #did #feature