Quotes About Modest

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

I am quite a down-to-earth person.

I tend to fly a bit under the radar.

I try to stay under the radar.

I've always been under the radar.

I like to fly under the radar.

I wasn't the kind of player to make a fuss.

I have definitely not turned glamorous.

I'm not very glamorous.

I've never lived the glamorous life.

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.

O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part!

The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.

I have had the good fortune to live - as an inside witness and, even, a modest participant - at a time when our understanding of this wonder we call 'life' has made its most revolutionary advances.

I am a woman of simple tastes.

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.

Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. [...] But above all black says this: 'I don't bother you - don't bother me'

A story does not need to be hot. Stories are usually about a modest salvation.

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