Famous quotes containing the words verbs and/or english:
“He crafted his writing and loved listening to those tiny explosions when the active brutality of verbs in revolution raced into sweet established nouns to send marching across the page a newly commissioned army of words-on-maneuvers, all decorated in loops, frets, and arrowlike flourishes.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)
“The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.”
—18th-century English proverb.