Models Quotes

Confession: I don't want everybody to be beautiful, not in that unlined, creaseless, symmetrical way. Android beauty, like it comes out of a test tube. Beauty without blemish or mark. Not only do I not identify with such people, I don't believe in them either. I don't even find them attractive. This is what makes watching television so hard: they don't cast actors anymore, only models. When they make a movie of my life, they'd better cast a character actor in the lead. Don't try to tell me I'm not a character.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Nowadays, nobody can teach you a useful thing about life, since models are outdated one moment after.

Imitation is for shirkers like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers unifying for the creators.

Nothing is so infectious as example.

What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.

Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice once for herself and once for her child.

During the shoot in November 2003, I was vaguely aware of the stylist’s sulky demeanor and eye-rolling vibe, but I blocked her out. Some fashion people are snotty drama queens; this is not news. Whatever was going on with her, I was determined to be positive and not get infected by her energy. Later, Fiorella told me that the entire time I was in makeup, the stylist had been clomping up and down the hall, sputtering into her cell phone, “I can’t believe I have to style a FAT GIRL!”tBelieve it, bitch.

In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but with this peculiarity, that while scores and scores of his male figures are obviously suffused and inspired by a romantic sentiment, there is hardly one of his female figures that is so,—the latter being mostly representative of woman in her part as mother, or sufferer, or prophetess or poetess, or in old age, or in any aspect of strength or tenderness, except that which associates itself especially with romantic love. Yet the cleanliness and dignity of Michel Angelo's male figures are incontestable, and bear striking witness to that nobility of the sentiment in him, which we have already seen illustrated in his sonnets.

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

Go to the ant thou sluggard learn to live and by her busy ways reform thy own.

Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.

When I die, I want to be remembered for what I did, not what I could've done

A model’s opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to smile at the camera.

—except for the fact that your scars mean you’ve been hurting, I am one-hundred-percent cool with having them in the painting. Some models, especially the professional ones, it’s like painting air-brushed people. Give me something raw any day.

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

Example has more followers than reason.

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Our mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

I believe in recovery and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

And then I recalled those mysterious stories about the waxworkers of the middle ages and the public reprobation attached to their trade. Did they not live in cellars, in the eternal twilight propitious for enchantments and apparitions? Their visionary art (who, more than they, evoked a truer image of life?) was closely related to that of magicians: bewitchments were carried out with wax figures, witch trials are full of them, and one particular legend haunted me above all, that of the modeler from Anspach, who slowly squeezed the soul and the life out of his model in order to animate his painted waxwork and then, having finished his work of art, awaited nightfall to go and bury the corpse in the ditch at the city walls.

The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person ... who is worthy of emulation.

Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes but it is sort of necessary.

Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.

There is no color to known to beauty except elegance.

Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.

My heart is happy my mind is free. I had a father who talked with me.

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

Examine the personality of the mother who is the medium through which the primitive infant transforms herself into a socialized human being.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Very few men are wise by their own counsel or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

If ... you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions envy is only moved to malice.

If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation by actual experience in the school of life by ceaseless alertness to learn from others by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects by constant study of human nature.

A prudent person profits from personal experience a wise one from the experience of others.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

When a child is immersed in a certain environment, his thinking is formed by roles models of behavior demonstrated by parents in the family who have had a great influence on the formation of thinking of the child

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.

We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it think some thoughts better than we think catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Emulation is a noble and just passion full of appreciation.

From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's new discovery. They knew the secret too. They knew thin was good, thin was strong; thin was safe.

It's true that heroes are inspiring but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.

IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them.

The absence of models, in literature as in life, to say nothing of painting, is an occupational hazard for the artist, simply because models in art, in behavior, in growth of spirit and intellect--even if rejected--enrich and enlarge one's view of existence. Deadlier still, to the artist who lacks models, is the curse of ridicule, the bringing to bear on an artist's best work, especially his or her most original, most strikingly deviant, only a fund of ignorance and the presumption that as an artist's critic one's judgement is free of the restrictions imposed by prejudice, and is well informed, indeed, about all the art in the world that really matters.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, improbable girls with pumped-up breasts and no hips - blondes, brunettes and redheads, but always with this bust development, so that a visitor of another species might judge from the preoccupation of artist and audience that the seat of procreation lay in the mammaries. Alice Chicoy...who worked among the shining girls, was wide-hipped and sag-chested and she walked well back on her heels...She was not in the least jealous of the calendar girls and the Coca-Cola girls. She had never seen anyone like them, and she didn't think anyone ever had.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

Learn from the mistakes of others- you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.