Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity…

A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim aspect, known…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood…

— Emanuel Lasker

Enlightenment is x-rated, honey; if you haven't checked it out. It's hot, it's vivacious. You're going to take your mind and merge it with…

— Frederick Lenz

People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.

— Betty Smith

But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in…

— Anonymous

In many ways, the physical dimension of life becomes less important as the soul enlarges. In my late twenties, I was astonished by the…

— Wendy Lustbader

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

— Gloria Steinem

I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared vivacious and altogether quite…

— Christopher Cokinos

Not only did I come out as a reality star that was very boisterous and vivacious and outspoken and all those things. I flipped…

— NeNe Leakes

My mother's influence to take on new challenges and do what I though was right even though sometimes the consequences politically speaking were not…

— Jimmy Carter

Christie Brinkley told me that I needed to become a movie star because I have that something, and then we actually just became friends…

— Ashley Graham

I think Kristen is incredibly brave. She played such a good version Bella Swan, people think Kristen Stewart is Bella Swan. She's not, you…

— Rupert Sanders

We have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys to heart of our own accord. And it is…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The seeds of the life of fishes are everywhere disseminated, whether the winds waft them, or the waters float them, or the deep earth…

— Henry David Thoreau

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

— Arthur Smith