Quotes About Modifiers

#1. Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.

Allen Ginsberg

#2. A world without adjectives would still have the sun rising and setting, the flowers blooming, the trees bearing fruits, the birds singing, and the bees stinging.

A.A. Patawaran

#3. Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

Joseph Heller

#4. What have you done to your eyes? They're all red. Have you been crying?' 'No,' he answers, laughing, 'but I've been staring into my fairy tales, where the sun is very strong.

Knut Hamsun

#5. The dangerous pileup of modifiers is a hallmark of Joel's rhetorical style.

Michael Pollan

#6. I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. Steve sighed, wishing for a cigarette. "The Buddha teaches respect for all life." "Oh." She considered this. "Are you a Buddhist?" "No. I'm an asshole. But I keep trying.

Scott Hawkins

#8. In Gotham, the Monster Men are always coming.

Tom King

#9. Feed a squirrel and he'll leave you alone every day.

Brian Spellman

#10. I sutured split infinitives and hoisted dangling modifiers and wore out the seam of my best flannel skirt.

Amor Towles

#11. Never flew off the handle just keeping it realism.

Lester Marrow

#12. My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just mix as I go for each painting.

Matt Smith