Verbs Behave

Famous quotes containing the words verbs and/or behave:

“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)

“Woe, woe, woe ... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)