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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.
Barbara de Angelis

Love, Marriage, Partner

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
Ambrose Bierce

Opinion, Another, Vote

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

God, Seems, Proper

God is a verb, not a noun.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
R. Buckminster Fuller

God, Here, Purpose

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
Robert Downey, Jr.

Hero, Heroic, Verb

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
Martha Graham

Before, Place, Act

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.
Bell Hooks

Love, Process, Verb

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
Yoko Ono

Art, Thought, Rather

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.
Mary Daly

God, Why, Indeed

Think Tank, noun: The shower.
Craig Bruce

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
Edward Sapir

Same, Word, English

The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.'
William Safire

American, Used, Culture

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