Quotes About Modest

Petecure (n.) Modest cooking; cooking on a small scale. Very few people eat in an epicurean fashion, yet many of them know what the word epicure means. A great many people eat in a simple fashion, and yet no one knows the word for this. Petrichor

I think I'm pretty down to earth.

I'm a very cheap date.

I don't have lavish taste.

I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.

I'm a guy with simple tastes.

I'm a simple man with very simple tastes and low standards.

We believe in lowering taxes for everyone, and those tax reductions should be targeted at people with middle and modest incomes, and I don't say that rhetorically.

Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.

I find him whelming, personally. Neither overwhelming nor underwhelming but somewhere in the middle.

Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.

Beneath the pleasure generated by the juxtaposition of order and complexity, we can identify the subsidiary architectural virtue of balance. Beauty is a likely outcome whenever architects skilfully mediate between any number of oppositions, including the old and the new, the natural and the man-made, the luxurious and the modest, and the masculine and the feminine.

For I must tell you, gentle reader, that Geralt the Witcher was always a modest, prudent and composed man, with a soul as simple and uncomplicated as the shaft of a halberd.

He senses that the effort would be wasted on a pedant obsessed with etymology and grammar, ignorant of life, and willing to sacrifice the true affection he had for a modest laundress in order to please the despotic Mme Verdurin, who feels insulted by the lowly and in her eyes shameful connection. Her soirees are the only social pleasure he knows. How could he capture the beauty and complexity of a great book?

I'm one of those old-fashioned people who keeps their private life private.

I'm kind of a private person.

I'm quite a private person.

I have always been discreet in my life.

I don't see myself as a diva at all.

One thing my parents never raised me to be was a diva. I'm pretty low maintenance.

I'm not physically a super expressive person.

I'm not a brazen extrovert, but I'm not as blushing or demure as people might think.

Mathematicians are fairly cheap.

It's perfectly sane. Who wants transparency when you can have magic? Who wants prose when you can have poetry" pull away the veil, and what are you left with? An ordinary young woman of modest ability and little imagination. But wrap her up like this, anoint her with oil, and hey presto, what do you have? A goddess!