Modifiers Quotes

“It's not entirely absurd to think that somewhere in the past of mankind someone, for the first time, did in his mind the equivalent of putting an adjective to a noun, and saw, not only a relationship, but this special relationship between two things of different kinds....In sum, all the seemingly complicated kinds of modification in English are just ways of thinking and seeing how things go with each other or reflect each other. Modifiers in our language are not aids to understanding relationships; they are the ways to understand relationships. A mistake in this matter either comes from or causes a clouded mind. Usually it's both.”
― Richard Mitchell, Less Than Words Can Say

“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.”
― AA Patawaran, Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

“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, Catch-22