Basic Verbs

Famous quotes containing the words basic and/or verbs:

“It is easier to move rivers and mountains than to change a person’s basic nature.”
—Chinese proverb.

“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)