Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.

Max von Essen

My environment is important to me. I'd rather give up other things in my life - I might not take vacations or spend a lot of money on clothes - so that I can live in a home I feel really good about.

Derrick McKenzie

Music in England is like clothes. It's a fashion thing. But we're still doing the same kind of music we were doing at the beginning. We've just matured.

Bob Mankoff

Now we have to devote the rest of our lives to cross country to validate the clothes.

Anthony Cannon

New Orleans was my home, ... Everything we own is gone now. I used to go home to Georgia and wouldn't have any clothes because everything was (in New Orleans). Now it's going to be the same way.

Hailee Steinfeld

When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.

Tina Fey

I like to delude myself that I'm in the old-Hollywood mode. I just tailor my clothes well and try to keep my skin clear. While it would be great to work out an hour a day, there is something inherently sort of selfish about it. I can't do it.

Elisha Cuthbert

I feel like I'm one of the Simpson's' (referring to her having to wear the same clothes for an entire season of 24)

Ben Jonson

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

Evan Osnos

Lei Feng is reported to have died in a freak accident in 1962 - struck by a falling telephone pole.

Atem Aleu

Many people died from no water and no food.

Jim Shaw

So he had his favorite meal, played a show and died in his sleep. We thought that's not too bad.

Bible Bible

So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

Ama Dwimoh

Mommy! Mommy! She died at the hands of two people she called Mommy and Daddy.

George Felos

Mrs. Schiavo died a calm, peaceful and gentle death.

Tom Anderson

Obviously, we are very pleased. When the governor signs it, we hope to be done. This is a huge step for the memorial and for the firefighters, especially those who died in the line of duty.

Dean Wilson

More people have recognized me for that. It's died down now, I think. Anything that gets you recognized, I guess, is nice.

Robert Jeffress

More people died on 9/11, in one day, at the hand of Muslim terrorists than during the Inquisition.

Joe Cheshire

Let's look at some facts. You know, false accusations are made by people all the time for all different types of reasons.

Theodore Steinberg

Levees are a double-edged sword; they give people a false sense of security.

Sathya Baba

Love knows no fear and so love needs no falsehood to support it.

Jerry Parker

My feelings are still that I don't want to give the public a false sense of security by us passing the matrix.

Steve Stanley

No one should have any false hope that the trade gap is going to narrow much or for very long, but at least the speed of the underlying deterioration is less than we thought.

Benjamin Franklin

Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.

Dawn Powell

Now we have only the escapists, who write of happenings a hundred or three hundred years ago, false to history, false to human nature.

Carlos Rodriguez

I did not come here to give you false hopes, ... But Ill tell you this: Were going to rebuilt St. Bernard.

Jim Keyes

If we have one false positive a month, it gives us concern. So 13 is out of the ordinary. That's outrageously high.

William Shakespeare

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

Coco Chanel

Modesty is the highest elegance

Anna Jameson

Modesty and chastity are twins

David Halberstam

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

William Shakespeare

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

Alan King

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

Robert Buchanan

She just wore Enough for modesty - no more

Bharati Mukherjee

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

Erik Satie

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.