Mod Quotes

#1. Hige sceal pe heardra, heorte pe cenre,
mod sceal pe mare pe ure maegen lytlao.
( Will shall be the sterner, heart the bolder, spirit the greater as
our strength lessens. )

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.

Ian McLagan

#3. Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

Martin Freeman

#4. I loved being on the set with my stepfather. I loved the magic of movies. I went on the set of 'The Mod Squad' - I mean, can you imagine? Just walking into a living room and then walking behind the living room, and it's just flat. There's nothing I love more than being on a sound stage.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#5. It's like the mod thing is happening again.

Pete Townshend

#6. The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.

Jon Landau

#7. Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower along Fraternity Row, that drove the mod movements of the middle sixties and late seventies, that lie at the heart of every rock band formed by men of that age.

Michael Chabon

#8. It's hard to focus on loud mod to read something like the TV is playing something like Advertising and other boredom stuff and stupid and you are reading an article about topics which are difficult one.

Deyth Banger

#9. But a child is a sensitive instrument. You can hide the factual truth from a child, but you can't blanket influence. Your agitation will out, and over time it will mod your child's temperament as surely as water wear at rock.

Daniel Smith

#10. To me, the process of writing is just reading what I've written and - like running your hand over one of those mod glass stovetops to find where the heat is - looking for where the energy is in the prose, then going in the direction of that. It's an exercise in being open to whatever is there.

George Saunders

#11. In the early-'60s, when you look at that period of time - up to the mod time - when everybody was wearing skinnier suits and skinny lapels and skinny ties - that came out of the States, and that was quite cool.

Paul Weller

#12. My go-to necktie is jet black, skinny, and simple. It goes with everything. I really like that mod-ish punk look.

Nigel Barker

#13. I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Martin Freeman

#14. Rah chalta hun toh yeh manzilein kho jati hain,
Har mod par bas tu nazar aati hai;
Kya hai zindgi tere bna, ek pal sochta hu,
Agle he pal yeh zindgi bhi maut nazar aati hai.

Anuj Tiwari

#15. I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.

Cate Blanchett

#16. The color scheme of the whole sanatorium seemed to be based on liver. Dark, glowering woodwork, burnt-brown leather chairs, walls that might once have been white but had succumbed under a spreading malady of mod or damp. A mottled brown linoleum sealed off the floor.

Sylvia Plath

#17. Men's clothes are becoming kind of mod. They're becoming more colorful and more flamboyant, and the male peacock is beginning to show his true plumage.

Liberace

#18. I like being what the girls call MOD-"my other Dad." What I've learned in the past year is that every kid is different. But as long as you love them and never forget that love, then you have the key. I think it's all about just being there and loving them because kids feel that every single day.

Ashton Kutcher

#19. Life is a quarry, out of which we have to mod and chisel and complete character?" ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Matt Nelson

#20. I can go completely berserk with the makeup, depending on the event. I'm currently in this very mod stage. I wear false lashes and color on my eyelids. I'm really liking shiny eyelids in copper, rose, gold, or silver.

Sharon Stone

#21. We may yearn for rustic detail and old-world charm, but those who have it set their minds on vinyl wallpaper, fitted carpets and all mod cons.

Tahir Shah

#22. This was the English passion, not for self-improvement or culture or wit, but for DIY, Do It Yourself, for bigger and better houses with more mod cons, the painstaking accumulation of comfort and, with it, status - the concrete display of earned cash.

Hanif Kureishi

#23. MANUFACTURER: mnm.MOD

Sheri Koones

#24. I was a mod when I was a kid. I'd be in Italian pencil-leg trousers with those bowling shoes you wear outside and a Fred Perry polo shirt with a V-neck sweater. It was like an Essex uniform - a very specific look.

Stephen Moyer

#25. You can't be a mod and a rocker. You have to choose sides.

Noel Gallagher

#26. Despite 'Mod Squad's hit status, I never really made the inner connection that I was contributing.

Peggy Lipton

#27. You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

Martin Freeman

#28. Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.

Aaron Spelling

#29. I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.

Paul Weller

#30. No radio, no telephone," Melinda observed. "No mod cons whatsoever in Hloubetin, are there."
"We have a hamster," Jacob said.
"Not traditionally considered an amenity.

Caleb Crain

#31. Without sounding arrogant, A Crafty Cigarette is keeping the spirit of The Jam alive, self-belief, being imaginative and having Mod sensibilities

Matteo Sedazzari

#32. Drive will take you much farther than talent ever could.

Mod Sun

#33. In a world of more brilliance words don't mean anything.

Mod Sun

#34. A flaw is really beauty owned by nobody else. I think everyone is beautiful.

Mod Sun

#35. Look up, now look down. Up is endless, down has an ending. Always look up.

Mod Sun

#36. If you devote yourself to positivity, positivity will devote itself to you.

Mod Sun

#37. Let unexpected incidents roll off you like raindrops dancing down your bedroom window.

Mod Sun

#38. You should work your hardest to inspire your inspirations

Mod Sun

#39. The mind is stronger than any muscle.

Mod Sun

#40. If you woke up that's a reason to celebrate.

Mod Sun

#41. Please understand 1 thing, if u want something all you have to do is think it into existence. It may manifest immediately, it may take time.

Mod Sun

#42. Your worst mistakes is actually your best advice.

Mod Sun