Modish Quotes

#1. The meaningless wordplays of modish francophone savants, splendidly exposed in Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont's Intellectual Impostures (1998), seem to have no other function than to impress the gullible.

Richard Dawkins

#2. Eugenia never wears modish gowns. She says there are more important things to think of than one's dresses.'
'What a stupid thing to say!' remarked Sophy. 'Naturally there are, but not, I hold, when one is dressing for dinner.

Georgette Heyer

#3. I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.

Dieter Rams

#4. Even the wisest man grows tense
With some sort of violence
Before he can accomplish fate,
Know his work or choose his mate.
Poet and sculptor, do the work,
Nor let the modish painter shirk

William Butler Yeats

#5. I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skepsis, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.

Thomas Mann

#7. The more careless, the more modish.

Jonathan Swift

#8. Sophie got out the modish black-and-white, which was the only hat even remotely likely to interest this lady. The lady looked at it with contempt. "This one doesn't do anything for anybody. You're wasting my time, Miss Hatter." "Only because you came in and asked for hats," Sophie said.

Diana Wynne Jones

#9. Slap-stick comedy is really funny, unless you're the one getting slapped with the stick.

Carroll Bryant

#10. A character is as much about what you do as what you say.

Darren Boyd

#11. Marrok, in all
these years, you've grown to be like a grandson to me. I believe you can do this. Have faith in your
wolf, son. Where you're weak, he's strong. It's his mate, too, and I can guarantee he won't let her go
without a fight.

Rose Wynters

#12. People are good and people are bad, sometimes one right after the other, sometimes simultaneously. Sometimes,

Bobby Adair

#13. I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.

Dalai Lama

#14. The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God.

Nancy Holder

#15. If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick.

Rich Little

#16. Keep a strict, predictable schedule 365 days a year that has you eating, sleeping, and exercising at about the same times day in and day out.

David Agus

#17. In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.

Kiran Desai