Top 100 A Model Quotes
#1. One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.
Bill Dedman
#2. Sometimes I am still surprised that I'm a model and that people think I'm good-looking.
Daria Werbowy
#3. NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs; but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.
Horace Mann
#4. Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never plotted a master plan for following my dreams.
Kathryn Joosten
#5. I was always the weirdo at school. When I became a model [at 16], I didn't tell anybody. I was terrified that the kids would rip me to pieces.
Karen Elson
#6. I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.
Geena Davis
#7. Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.
David Eagleman
#8. Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
Tao Okamoto
#9. Since good intentions and sympathy for others often led people into trouble, the Chinese people had invented a new proverb that said, 'The more you do, the more trouble you have; the less you do, the less trouble you have. If you do nothing whatever, you will become a model citizen.
Nien Cheng
#10. Even though I played national level badminton, I told my parents when I was in 10th that I was not interested in continuing. Being a model or actor fascinated me from a young age, and I even did a couple of ads when I was just eight years old.
Deepika Padukone
#11. There were a lot of contradictions between Marcello's[ Mastroianni] public persona and who he was in private.
The fact that Italy chose to incarnate him as a model of beauty stupefied him.
Giovanna Cau
#12. Of course, as a model for my magician Strange is far from perfect
he lacks the true heroic nature; for that I shall be obliged to put in something of myself.
Susanna Clarke
#13. Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.
Naomi Campbell
#15. Here, astoundingly, crucifixion on a cross is a model around which Paul's audiences are to construct the whole of their life.
Bruce W. Longenecker
#16. Why is it the most difficult to throw? Because it is the only one without a model. When
Rene Girard
#17. My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.
Charles Edison
#18. I never think of an actor as a model. A model wears what you tell them to wear, that's their job. An actor is different. It's important to work with the actor because in the end that's who the audience sees and that's the success that you need.
Patricia Field
#19. I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
Karen Elson
#20. As a model, part of my job is to be critiqued physically.
Erin O'Connor
#21. The barrier to entry, to being a model, is not hard work. You don't need a degree. You don't need to win an award. It's just about how you look.
Cameron Russell
#22. We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
Pericles
#23. One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.
Peter Schmidt
#24. My mom was a model, and her laid-back but put-together sensibility really rubbed off on me.
Tony Parker
#25. I believe that international support through critical funds, together with the determination of my compatriots, Malawi can be a model country for meeting global health targets and get on with the business of African-driven global economic growth.
Joyce Banda
#26. Saying that you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying that you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's out of your control and it's awesome - and it's not a career path.
Cameron Russell
#27. I won't date a model, because models are perfect and perfect is boring.
Niall Horan
#28. Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.
Hermann Hesse
#29. I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
Karyn Parsons
#30. I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.
Elsa Peretti
#31. FBI slaughter of the innocents at Waco was a model Jacobin enterprise.
Gore Vidal
#32. I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.
Peter T. King
#33. Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously. The fact that a reader may buy an Armani item because she'd seen it on me in a magazine is very important to me. So much so that I intend to launch my own label.
Milla Jovovich
#34. It was around the age of 18 when I started to feel like I had learned everything I could learn from being a model - modeling is a really incredible form of expression, but I got into modeling because I loved fashion so much and I really loved photography.
Jaime King
#35. When I went to Paris after graduating high school, I saw a model who was 12 years old without any supervision. That wouldn't happen in the acting world.
Tyra Banks
#36. It's weird that the world sees modeling as a negative. It just blows my mind how many people think that because I was a model, I think I'm pretty and that I can use my looks to get ahead. I'm not pretty!
Kellan Lutz
#37. Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.
Rachel Roy
#38. First let's look at a model of Situational Leadership II that shows a combination development level and leadership style.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#39. I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen.
Edwin Edwards
#40. I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model.
Isabella Rossellini
#41. I don't read the Bible as the literal word of God; I don't view Jesus as a God. I've rejected both those statements. I view Jesus as a model for how we should live, and by that definition I do consider myself a Christian.
Tim DeChristopher
#42. I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government.
Roy Barnes
#43. I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
Gabrielle Reece
#44. I love, love, love fashion so much. That's why I became a model in the first place.
Linda Evangelista
#45. I think it's every girl's dream, a little bit, to be a model because it seems from the outside to be a glamorous industry and I was really into fashion, and I remember just being excited and wanting to be part of that.
Alexa Chung
#46. God sent me a woman who was an older woman - who wasn't much older than me but she was older in the sense (of her relationship with) the Lord ... She started guiding me. She was very much a model for my life.
Patricia Mauceri
#48. It's not a model if it's full-size. It's a ice-breaker!
Michael Palin
#50. It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.
Olivia Wilde
#52. As a model, you're such a gypsy, so that 'home' element is kind of taken from you.
Erin Heatherton
#54. Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.
Philip Pearlstein
#55. Knowing that I'm not a model and I'm never going to be has relieved me of the pressure of looking good. If you don't establish yourself as McDreamy then you don't have to live up to it.
Charlie Day
#56. What marks the transition from non-sentient to sentient beings? A model of increasing complexity based on evolution through natural selection is simply a descriptive hypothesis, a kind of euphemism for "mystery," and not a satisfactory explanation.
Dalai Lama XIV
#57. YouTube has proven it can flourish in a model where there is more autonomy, and in that way I think it is an example and a potential model for other areas of the business.
Salar Kamangar
#58. As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#59. There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.
Chester A. Arthur
#60. A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.
Freeman Dyson
#61. My body is for my tennis - it's for my sport. I'm not a model at all. I don't work out to go to the beach: I work out to play well and to do well on the court.
Stanislas Wawrinka
#62. I do think that the long poem speaks for an inner need for continuity. We live in a time of so many losses, disruptions, and distractions, that the need for a sense of the ongoing is quite real. The long poem is very satisfying in offering the psyche a model of coherence.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#63. Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#64. Fashion is really a place where every other industry connects, whether it's music or acting. At the end of the day, everyone is going to walk the red carpet and be interested in the fashion side of it. I think that's really cool because as a model, you get to connect with a lot of different worlds.
Gigi Hadid
#65. People call me a 'model-actress,' when I just never started with that ... it's not my story.
Astrid Berges-Frisbey
#66. I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.
Rufus Sewell
#67. I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.
Jules Asner
#68. My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.
Angie Everhart
#69. Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.
Donella H. Meadows
#70. Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [ ... ] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.
Richard Dawkins
#71. I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.
Delta Burke
#72. There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.
Gisele Bundchen
#73. I actually wanted to become a model agent, and went into what ended up becoming my first agency for a job interview. They ended up suggesting I model instead. I guess I sort of fell into it.
Rila Fukushima
#74. I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.
Shirley Bassey
#75. I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
Kate Moss
#76. Lindsey imagined him looking like a model in his business clothes, shopping for toilet parts for her. Perfect. What girl wouldn't want a smokin' hot guy associating her with toilet parts?
Tracy March
#77. A lot of men tend to want "models"
I tell men, unless they look like a model themselves, they can't expect to land one.
Trisha Ventker
#78. I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
Halle Berry
#79. Ivy could have been a model. Hell, Ivy could be anything she wanted. Except happy. Ivy had issues.
Kim Harrison
#80. I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
Candice Swanepoel
#81. We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.
Tarja Halonen
#82. My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.
Daniel Tammet
#83. No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.
W. Somerset Maugham
#84. To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
Iain McGilchrist
#85. Some would think the leader of a people should be a model of what to strive for. But maybe God knew trying to be perfect is just not healthy, or maybe God could not find any perfect human beings. Maybe it's just not possible to be perfect.
Seth Greenland
#86. It is important to me that people believe in me as a model, trust in me as a model - which they do in London and New York - which is why sometimes I think I'm an Anglo-Saxon woman at heart.
Noemie Lenoir
#87. Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created.
Marlene Dietrich
#88. State your name."
"Venice Huber."
"Occupation?"
"Well, it's hard to say. I don't model, land of the seventeen bimbos. I don't act - after all, isn't an actress just a model who won't shut up? Let's say, oh - homemaker. Could you die?
Paul Rudnick
#89. It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.
Caprice Bourret
#90. My early years were hardly a model of focus, discipline, and direction. No one who met me as a teenager could have imagined my going into research and making important discoveries. No one could have predicted the arc of my career.
Craig Venter
#91. I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.
Frank Gehry
#92. The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the pattern that we are to follow. It is a model of social behavior toward the other as well as a statement about what God has done for us.
Miroslav Volf
#93. However, when you create a model from proxies, it is far simpler for people to game it. This is because proxies are easier to manipulate than the complicated reality they represent.
Cathy O'Neil
#94. I think we can be competitive on and off the field and create a model where our athletes are scholars and learners, too.
Gordon Gee
#95. When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body - it's more athletic.
Samantha Fox
#96. If you're a model, you're supposed to know how to walk, aren't you?
Lindsey Wixson
#97. My mom was a model, so she's been really good about giving me tips on how to navigate behind the scenes - like the importance of being nice to everyone on set and remembering people's names, to how to be a positive part of the photo shoot and stuff like that.
Gigi Hadid
#98. I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody I actually know as a model, I am submitting them to the agenda of a storyteller, and I feel free to do what I want.
Vivian Gornick
#99. I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.
Karen Gillan
#100. I'll teach you how to defend yourself, how to maim a man. We can use Po as a model.'
'Wonderful,' Po said. 'It's quite boring really, the way you beat me to death with your hands and feet, Katsa. It'll be refreshing to have you come at me with a knife.
Kristin Cashore
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