Modifier Quotes

#1. I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.

Kathryn Bigelow

#2. I never cared about money because I never needed money, you know what I mean? When I was 12 to 17 I never saw any of the money, so the money never motivated me.

Ricky Schroder

#3. Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?

William Safire

#4. Aaron would not come out
aaron entered into agony.

William Goldman

#5. Yngve came in and said that John Bonham, the drummer in Led Zeppelin, was on one of the songs.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#6. You do have the idea of being 'just good friends?'"
He gave her a sideways look. "For so high and honorable an estate," Roshaun said, " 'just' seems a poor modifier to choose.

Diane Duane

#7. A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.

Sufjan Stevens

#8. Reality is a construct of the neurons.

Abhijit Naskar

#9. Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating. Love is beyond the mind because it is always new. Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old. So the mind is a modifier, a reactor; a renovator, but it cannot create the new.

Barry Long

#10. I think people want to see change, want to see something new and Hillary Clinton is just not that person.

Mitt Romney

#11. BASICS OF DIET AND HEALTH The basic principles of good diets are so simple that I can summarize them in just ten words: eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables. For additional clarification, a five-word modifier helps: go easy on junk foods.

Marion Nestle

#12. As for the Sun mouse, I'm not a big multi-button mouse fan, because I just can't remember which button to push when. I rather like the Macintosh system of using four modifier keys with the mouse.

Bruce Tognazzini