Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Although I didn't set out to run my own label, I found it made sense quite quickly. I can say what I… — Withered Hand Copy Share Image
It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being. — Franz Beckenbauer Copy Share Image
For some years now I have been considering the idea of making a watch that our agents could sell at a more… — Hans Wilsdorf Copy Share Image
An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make… — John Adams Copy Share Image
My being Indian is possibly the biggest thing that influences my stories. Not just in terms of settings - most of the… — Vandana Singh Copy Share Image
It must be splendid to command millions of people in great national ventures, to lead a hundred thousand to victory in battle.… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
I was told I had to go to business school to succeed. I gave it a shot, but eventually dropped out to… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
It's difficult to make the interesting feature films that don't fit easily into a genre, even on modest budgets. It's tough to… — Julian Jarrold Copy Share Image
I was always a singer, it was nothing anyone planned on me doing for real, because it's an unusual thing. I was… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
'Scandal,' I sort of experienced the ascent and the transition from a modest start to a full-blown hit. — Joshua Malina Copy Share Image
I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is also possible, I believe, if one lives in India long enough, to come across a globe-trotter who is modest and… — Sara Jeannette Duncan Copy Share Image
Every ecosystem, even a small one, is sustainable because it has certain ensembles and conditions and influences that are unique to it.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
My trick - is there one? Well, perhaps a bitter youth with many changes of occupation, with the necessity of trying everything… — Martin Munkacsi Copy Share Image
