Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think October was the bottom. It could pick up modestly in December.

Morena Baccarin

I love 'Modern Family;' I don't exactly watch it when it's on, but I try to catch up on it when I can; it's one of my favorite shows.

Joseph Addison

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

Joseph Addison

Virtue which shuns, the day.

Lance Morrow

The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

Giorgio Armani

You won't notice the top models in the show. You won't be able to recognize them. ... It's about having this one concept, this one woman.

You will see a moderation in some markets.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I'm much too modest a person.

John Adams

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

Eric Hoffer

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.

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.

These are not cuts, these are modest reductions in the rate of growth.

It's a model that's very useful for a very narrow set of U.S. interests.

Robert Henri

The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.

Tacitus

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

William J. Clinton

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

William Gilmore Simms

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

Rob James-Collier

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

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.

William S. Burroughs

He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.

William Hazlitt

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

William Hazlitt

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

Shannon Elizabeth

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

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

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.