#modest

When I was first pregnant, which was, let's see, in nineteen-eighty-three - I remember wearing a regular bathing suit to my in-laws' pool. It was just like a spandex one-piece, completely modest, and yet people were looking at me like it was obscene. ↗

— Heidi Murkoff

#bathing suit #completely #first #i #i remember

All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy. ↗

— Al Pacino

#because #dancer #dancing #due #i

I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics. ↗

— Chris Patten

#background #cerebral #cut #even #goes

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#directors #films #modest #more #number

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#been #end #every #faith #gold

Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed. ↗

— Ron Paul

#course #end #fed #i #i do

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#awful #buy #cost #going #goodness

I want to make enough money to buy an island. Something modest, like Australia.
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— Jarod Kintz

#ambitious #australia #delusion #delusional #desire

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. ↗

— John Ruskin

#deformity #ever #heart #kind #manners

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#character #fiction #go #i #jackie