Helping Verbs

Famous quotes containing the words helping and/or verbs:

    ...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.
    Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

    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)