Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mandy Moore

We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.

Alain Vigneault

We were ready, but nothing transpired. For us, we're just in reaction mode a lot of the time.

Albert Einstein

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

E. F. Schumacher

The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

D. H. Lawrence

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

David Attenborough

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

Anthony Burgess

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

Andy Rooney

Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so I never send them in. If it breaks, I'll buy a new one. That's the American way.

Anne Frank

One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.

William Shakespeare

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

We are in a waiting mode right now, until we get some money in hand.

Chris Barron

We are in a wait-and-see mode right now,

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.

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.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

False modesty is better than none.

Tacitus

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

Sean Astin

My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.

Sebastian Faulks

The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

Maya Angelou

I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

Meg Ryan

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

P. J. O'Rourke

We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.

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.

Paulo Freire

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'

Mason Cooley

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

Mason Cooley

To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.

Mason Cooley

Moderation shifts when extremes do.

Mason Cooley

A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

Michael Crichton

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

We want to make this a model for other communities in the future.

William Collins

If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, / May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear.

I don't think it's a drug safety board...The model is bad, the name is bad. Why can't there be an audience?