David Johansen

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.

American Musician

Walter Dean Myers

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

American Writer

Gunther Schuller

The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it!

American Composer

Glenda Jackson

I find it extraordinary that contemporary dramatists don't find women interesting. Women are rarely, if ever, the central dramatic engine; they're there as an adjunct, and that hasn't changed at all.

British Actress

Kurt Loder

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

American Journalist

Alissa Quart

Actors and writers and adjuncts are always looking for their next job: they find common cause with the female Uber drivers on contracts who have also been unprotected victims of sexual harassment.

Steven Spielberg

I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.

American Director

John Ruskin

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

English Writer

Noreena Hertz

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.

English Author

Noam Chomsky

In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.

American Activist

Used when something adds extra benefits, not just present for show.

Enhancement Role

Even though it's useful, an adjunct doesn't mean it's absolutely required.

Not a Necessity

In academics, an adjunct is not usually a long-term role, but temporary.

Temporary Position

An adjunct in academia supports the main staff or faculty.

Secondary Role

The adjunct isn't the core focus; it complements the primary thing.

Supplemental, Not Central

An adjunct doesn't take over the role of what it's added to.

Not Interchangeable

When 'adjunct' is an adjective, it describes something supportive, not main.

Auxiliary Quality

Use 'adjunct' to describe skills that boost, not define, someone's role.

Complementary Skills

 To understand why scholars aren't engaging with popular media, you first have to understand how universities work. Now, in the last six years, I've taught at seven different colleges and universities in four different states. I'm a bit of an adjunct extraordinaire.

Adjunct