Secondary Verbs

Famous quotes containing the words secondary and/or verbs:

“A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

“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)