#verb

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. ↗

— George Gissing

#get #money #precious #proverb #says

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody. ↗

— Alain Juppe

#confrontation #everybody #harmful #states #such

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. ↗

— William Feather

#experience #fables #folk #into #nation

Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you. ↗

— Mike Judge

#could #dance #fashion #i #i think

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view. ↗

— Stacy Keach

#both #comedy #finesse #i #i think

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#characters #drive #enough #far #full

He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required thought. "Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from," he murmured at last, trying out a new proverb. "Although there may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement. ↗

— Joe Hill

#deuteronomy #devil #god #polyester #proverb

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

— Meg Whitman

#name #people #remarkable #use #verb

God is a verb, not a noun. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#noun #verb

While Nape was making the bread and Dryas boiling the ram, Daphnis and Chloe had time to go forth as far as the ivy-bush; and when he had set his snares again and pricked his lime-twigs, they not only catched good store of birds, but had a sweet collation of kisses without intermission, and a dear conversation in the language of love: "Chloe, I came for thy sake." "I know it, Daphnis." "'Tis long of thee that I destroy the poor birds." "What wilt thou with me?" "Remember me." "I remember thee, by the Nymphs by whom heretofore I have sworn in yonder cave, whither we will go as soon as ever the snow melts." "But it lies very deep, Chloe, and I fear I shall melt before the snow." "Courage, man; the Sun burns hot." "I would it burnt like that fire which now burns my very heart." "You do but gibe and cozen me!" "I do not, by the goats by which thou didst once bid me to swear to thee. ↗

— Longus (Longos)

#romance #verbosity #courage