Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josh Gad

Josh Gad and I have been friends since the time he auditioned for Modern Family. I directed the pilot for that, and that's how we met.

Kate Morton

Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say?

John Kenneth Galbraith

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Jules Renard

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

Meg Ryan

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

Edward Albee

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

Kate Adie

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

Rebecca Romijn

I'd never planned on being a model.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

Sarah Fielding

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

Roger Scruton

The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.

Sandy Gallin

I love collections of things, but always in moderation.

Walter Cronkite

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

Virginia Woolf

All extremes are dangerous.

Salvador Dali

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

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.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

False modesty is better than none.

Sam Levenson

I'm gonna put all my money into taxes. They're sure to go up.

Roland Emmerich

["2012"] it was really more about the subject matter, and to do a modern retelling of Noah's Ark, a flood story.

Roland Barthes

All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.

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.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

Shannon Elizabeth

When I was modeling, I worked out every day or other day.