Inflected Verb Quotes & Sayings

Creoles tend to express variations in time by having a string of helping verbs rather than by having complicated word formation rules. In other words, they are more like English in this respect than like a language such as Italian:
English: I thought she might have been sleeping.
Italian: Pensavo che dormisse.
The idea of potential (in the English "might"), completed or whole action (in the English "have"), and stretched-out activity (in the English "been") that go with "sleeping" are all expressed in the ending on the Italian verb dormisse. (Dorm is the root for "sleep"; isse is the ending that carries all the meaning about the time frame.) — Donna Jo Napoli

My opponents' first argument was that the rocks of the earth--which are generally agreed to have once been in a hot and melted state--would have required far longer to lose their heat than the Scriptures described. My reply was that the earth had indeed cooled at great speed, being made possible by a process I termed Divine Refrigeration. — Matthew Kneale

The tree is stripped,
All color, fragrance gone,
Yet already on the bough,
Uncaring spring! — Ikkyu

Small knowledge is Big dangerous — Steve Tong

We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder. — Vincent Van Gogh

The rose is born evil ... but it is pink. — Louis Aragon

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep. — Leon Jouhaux

I try to do things that keep me interested. And play music that moves me. I like to move around and play in a lot of different ways. — David Sanborn

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend. — Stephen Lang

Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end. — Amish Tripathi

Set your goals high and go far. Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today. — Madonna Ciccone

The truth is, cutting raw meat off the bones gives us the creeps. — Megan Carle

He was always in a sort of fever because he was dropping behind schedule with his daily acts of kindness. However hard he tried, he'd fall behind; and then you would find him prowling about the house, setting such a clip to try and catch up with himself that Easeby was rapidly becoming a perfect hell for man and beast. — P.G. Wodehouse