Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Griffin

Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.

Suzy Parker

And I only do what I do in life, which is model.

Simone Weil

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

Tim Gunn

I love Modern Family but it's among a handful of favorite shows.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

False modesty is better than none.

Richard Steele

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

Rebecca Romijn

I'd never planned on being a model.

W. S. Merwin

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

W. S. Gilbert

I am the very model of a modern major general

W. S. Gilbert

I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.

Tyra Banks

Modeling chose me, I didn't choose modeling.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.