Mr. Kelly, a big, gregarious dealer who started in modest quarters in SoHo, spent 12 years in a larger space in Chelsea and is more than tripling the size of his gallery, looked out the windows at his new neighbors and said he loved them.
The art was sold, and Hassan turned the suite into a sales training center and installed company executives in modest quarters across the campus.
Perhaps having worn out his welcome, Mr. Assange has left a British supporter's country estate, where he spent more than 300 days under house arrest, and is now in more modest quarters in the south of England.
Unlike his predecessors, who ruled until death or disability, Qianlong, the fifth emperor of the Qing Dynasty, vowed to abdicate at 85 and settle down in comparatively modest quarters carved out of the Forbidden City, the imperial behemoth with 8,700 rooms that anchors the Chinese capital.
He is content in his modest quarters.
Since 1987, a year before it opened in far more modest quarters in SoHo, it has acquired about 2,000 pieces.
The youngest of six Rockefeller children (five boys, one girl), David was close to his mother, and he remembers going with her in 1929 to the opening ceremonies of the fledgling Museum of Modern Art, which she and her friends Lillie Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan had founded, in its first, modest quarters in the Heckscher Building, on Fifty-seventh Street.
That not only means fewer dinners out, shopping trips and Broadway plays, but in all likelihood exchanging her apartment in Chelsea for more modest quarters in Brooklyn.
When former Representative James R. Grover Jr., a Republican from Suffolk County on Long Island, was in his ninth year in Congress in 1971, he deferred moving out of his rather cramped, modest quarters in the Longworth House Office Building near the Capitol, even though he certainly had enough seniority to take over newer, more resplendent rooms in the Rayburn building.
Of course, a considerable number of people whose offspring move away from home choose to switch to more modest quarters in the city since they no longer need as much space.
If you're willing to skip the lobster dinners and swap an oceanfront room along the island's rocky coast for more modest quarters in the verdant hills, your budget can be met.
