Substantives Quotes & Sayings

Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh
To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What? — Thomas Hood

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet. — Nicole Krauss

Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it. — Jules Verne

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams. — Anthony Hopkins

Are you afraid?"
"Yes."
"Energy never stops, remember. It just changes forms."
"I am still afraid. — Amie Kaufman

Dostoevsky does not exist for me. Virginia Woolf does not exist for me. Her essays are quite good, but her novels are not of much interest for me. And Joyce. His stories are wonderful, but his novels are too artificial, even pompous. I have heard some writers say, When I read Kafka or Flaubert or Dostoevsky, I think, why should I write? He is so good. For me, writers like Kafka are so closed they don't allow you to follow them, whereas someone like Shakespeare leaves many paths unexplored, many things just announced, strong images unexplained - these invite you not to follow him but to be inspired. He inspires me. — Javier Marias

I spend my life imagining you, it is not time to be a coward. — Gustavo Cerati

You should be able to tell your child, "This is an actor. And she's older than Mommy!" — Rosie O'Donnell

We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off. — Adam Arkin

Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives. — Florence Nightingale

It is amazing to observe how many psychologists and psychiatrists have accepted this sort of propaganda, and have come to believe that homosexual males and females are discretely different from persons who respond to natural stimuli. Instead of using these terms as substantives which stand for persons, or even as adjectives to describe persons, they may better be used to describe the nature of the overt sexual relations, or of the stimuli to which an individual erotically responds. — Alfred Kinsey

We cannot tell what the weather will be tomorrow (or the next hour) because we do not know accurately enough what the weather is right now. — Tzvi Gal-Chen

We kept the old male ideas of success: power and money. We need new ones! — Zosia Mamet

Sullivan, just pick it up." He glanced at me, spearing a chunk of hot dog with his fork. "My way is more genteel." I took another gigantic bite, and told him between chews, "Your way is more tight ass." "Your respect for me, Sentinel, is astounding." I grinned at him. "I'd respect you more if you took a bite of that dog. — Chloe Neill

Few parents have the courage and independence to care more for their children's happiness than for their success. — Alfie Kohn

Music and literature, the two temporal arts, contrive their pattern of sounds in time; or, in other words, of sounds and pauses. Communication may be made in broken words, the business of life be carried on with substantives alone; but that is not what we call literature; and the true business of the literary artist is to plait or weave his meaning, involving it around itself; so that each sentence, by successive phrases, shall first come into a kind of knot, and then, after a moment of suspended meaning, solve and clear itself.
-ON SOME TECHNICAL ELEMENTS OF STYLE IN LITERATURE — Robert Louis Stevenson

Hello little one. Did you know you're on private property?"

"Really? I had no idea." Meryn fudged.

He raised an eyebrow. "The ten foot fence right behind you didn't give it away? — Alanea Alder