Top 85 Evangelista Quotes
#1. There are only five top models in the world: Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Claudia Schiffer.
Valeria Mazza
#2. I know that sometimes the chemistry just isn't there between the model, photographer, hair and make-up. It's nobody's fault and you just have to do better next time.
Linda Evangelista
#3. Getting some time away to be active, work out, do yoga is definitely a necessity in life. These activities help me relieve stress and center my mind when I'm playing the waiting game after an audition.
Allen Evangelista
#4. One of the reasons I wanted to come back is I got sick of seeing really ugly pictures of myself in the tabloids. I got to the point where I'd look in the mirror and say: "Where'd she go? Because she's still in there." I knew she was still in there (she laughs) and it didn't take much to get her out.
Linda Evangelista
#5. I love everything about fashion. I even love the fittings and watching it evolve from a pattern to a muslin to the final product.
Linda Evangelista
#6. Half-caf, double-tall, non fat, whole-milk foam, bone-dry, half-pump mocha, half sugar in the raw, double cup, no lid, capp - to go.
Linda Evangelista
#7. Tess once walked into their bedroom and found them sitting up in bed, perfectly silent, holding hands in the twilight. That image had stayed with her, had given her the notion that love lasts forever.
Susan Evangelista
#8. I don't happen to think magazines should be full of thin people. What I do say is that we can all work a little harder with what we have. It is possible to achieve a better body shape and heart rate with nutrition and exercise.
Linda Evangelista
#9. Sure, I like my short hair. It also quadrupled my rate. I did get sick of seeing it on everybody, though - every stewardess, every salesclerk, and in every restaurant.
Linda Evangelista
#10. I love, love, love fashion so much. That's why I became a model in the first place.
Linda Evangelista
#11. Winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth.
Evangelista Torricelli
#12. I accept that keeping in shape doesn't come naturally, so I work hard. I hit the gym every day: Pilates, yoga, weights. I used to love wine but I've stopped drinking. I quit smoking and I'll never start again.
Linda Evangelista
#13. I was having panic attacks. I didn't want to live that way anymore. I was in love and I wanted it to work. I was tired of travelling, tired of the whole scene, just tired. I sat around. I was lazy. I wanted a routine, and I wanted to wake up in the same bed every day, and I got my wish.
Linda Evangelista
#16. People think modeling's mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn't have to be that way. I like to have a lot of input. I know how to wear a dress, whether it should be shot with me standing or sitting.
Linda Evangelista
#18. I think I will always have a place. I don't think I have to rule or reign but there's a place for me.
Linda Evangelista
#19. Each day is a new beginning. You can start fresh, anticipating what today will bring. Or you can just settle for yesterday's doubts, fears, or worries. Which road will you take? Do you take the path to the clear present or the the shadows of the past?
Eve Evangelista
#20. I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world.
Linda Evangelista
#22. As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won't go anywhere until they're done with me.
Linda Evangelista
#23. Fashion faux pas should be celebrated. I enjoy them because it means we're not all clones.
Linda Evangelista
#24. Who says you'll get hurt again?"
I pouted. "Have you met you?"
"Right.
Kate Evangelista
#25. It's about time to see the downfall of the scorecards of who's right and who's wrong. At the end of the day, what's important is that you feel good.
Eve Evangelista
#26. All questions have a basis in love. All answers lead to LOVE. If you can color everything in love, you have all the colors in the world.
Eve Evangelista
#28. I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not.
Linda Evangelista
#29. I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don't have to speak.
Linda Evangelista
#30. Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?
Evangelista Torricelli
#32. I was a hoarder, and I got rid of everything. Now nothing comes in my home unless it has a purpose. And decor is not a purpose. Home is New York apartment with a table, a bed and sofas. That's it. Everything else is gone.
Linda Evangelista
#34. We have made many glass vessels ... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.
Evangelista Torricelli
#35. Phoenix?"
"What?" I hate that my voice hitched.
"Can I open the door?"
I blinked in surprise. "Why do you want to do that?"
"Because I want to hold you.
Kate Evangelista
#36. Within two months I made the grand slam: covers of 'American Vogue', 'Italian Vogue', 'British Vogue', and 'French Vogue'.
Linda Evangelista
#37. Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.
Evangelista Torricelli
#38. Why would I be embarrassed about being Canadian? I'm very proud. We're just the nicest people. Everyone likes us.
Linda Evangelista
#40. You have this lifetime to make the best of your dreams. Don't wait a moment longer and start right now.
Eve Evangelista
#41. To her it was like being alone in the ocean, holding a kite string in one hand and an anchor chain in the other and finding the balance so she wouldn't sink.
Kate Evangelista
#42. When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.
Linda Evangelista
#43. There was a time when everyone remembered that stupid thing about me not getting out of bed for less than $10,000 a day. These days, it's far more important to me that I'm part of a team which raises over $1 million a month for Aids. I'm much more proud of that, than that other old quote.
Linda Evangelista
#44. Designers and photographers still want to work with me and I'm grateful for that. I don't know how long I'll carry on - as long as they'll have me.
Linda Evangelista
#46. It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.
Linda Evangelista
#47. I had no illusions that my career would be any longer than three years tops.
Linda Evangelista
#48. Cooking is one of my favourite things - from going to the market, bringing the stuff home and preparing it, to cleaning the kitchen afterwards. I've lost my figure a few times. There have been moments when I've overeaten, for comfort. But with discipline and hard work, you can get your figure back.
Linda Evangelista
#49. That was when I realized all love does is hurt people. It lulls you into a false sense of security, and then bam! You slam into a brick wall of pain. A shit ton of pain. Love destroys people to the point where they don't even care who else they hurt in the process.
Kate Evangelista
#51. One of my first jobs was in Italy and that's where I saw cocaine for the first time. There was a murder in our group that weekend. I decided then and there that I would never do drugs. I have anxiety attacks, so there's no way I could do them.
Linda Evangelista
#52. The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?
Evangelista Torricelli
#53. Keep spreading the love, world. But don't get greedy and overpopulate the planet.
Allen Evangelista
#54. Hair is just one way of expressing ourselves. We express ourselves through how we dress or through tattoos or body art or piercings or cosmetic surgery ...
Linda Evangelista
#55. I have to get off the Internet. It's so unhealthy for me. I do see what they post about me, and it's not always positive. They're mean - though there are some lovely ones. I'm so tempted to post something, but I haven't done it yet.
Linda Evangelista
#56. I eat super healthy and I'm super fit. I dabble in every type of fitness. I have a trainer and I go to the gym. I do yoga as well.
Linda Evangelista
#57. Looking at her was like stepping into a patch of spring sunlight after the harshest winter.
Kate Evangelista
#58. I should have known that from the moment I met you that there would be no going back. That I will never be the same. I know now that I'll never recover from loving you, Diana Alexander.
Kate Evangelista
#59. I was one of the first print models to go on the runway because I wanted to do runway. When I started doing the shows, I was the only print girl there.
Linda Evangelista
#60. We have this expression, Christy and I. We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.
Linda Evangelista
#61. If they had Nautilus on the Concorde, I would work out all the time.
Linda Evangelista
#62. I usually like to keep to myself, but others can tell if I'm upset because I'm keeping to myself.
Allen Evangelista
#63. I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.
Linda Evangelista
#64. Hair is the greatest thing to experiment with because it's not permanent. If I didn't like my colour, I'd just change it.
Linda Evangelista
#65. I have this great fear of people - not when I'm on the runway, but backstage. In a room full of people, I really suffer. I sort of go into a tunnel and I feel very removed. I get so tense, I can't swallow, and my heartbeat goes way up. It still happens now, although I'm better at controlling it.
Linda Evangelista
#66. On days when I do not work, I am working on my image. I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.
Linda Evangelista
#68. God help anyone who disobeys my recycling system. I have all the separated bins. I'm very adamant about it because I try to be a good citizen of the world, I really do. I even use eco-friendly cleaning products, but sometimes you just have to break open the disinfectant. Some jobs require it.
Linda Evangelista
#69. I like to remember what I have to be thankful for. When it gets bad, I usually list them out loud to my wife and myself. Helps me maintain a balanced perspective.
Allen Evangelista
#70. I'm so glad this worked out for me, I do think I know how to be a good model.
Linda Evangelista
#71. I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have rather been watching.
Linda Evangelista
#72. I admired those girls who did Playboy, Sports Illustrated, and Victoria's Secret. I love looking at them too, but I never went in that direction. I just stayed in fashion.
Linda Evangelista
#73. As far as we know, as a species, the only reason we were put on this planet is to help continue life.
Allen Evangelista
#74. Dillan didn't just kiss. He slow danced. We moved in sync. I wanted to lose myself in him. In his touch. Right then the world seemed like such a perfect place.
Kate Evangelista
#75. In photos, I don't know who the real me is - it's all pretend, just pretend. There's not much of myself in my work. If I'm looking in the mirror and I'm working, I'm looking at my make-up and my hair. It's not the same as looking at myself.
Linda Evangelista
#76. When I started in the business, I was told I had three good years in me.
Linda Evangelista
#78. I don't think age is an ugly process. I think age is a beautiful thing. I love wrinkles. I don't like falling down. If I just wrinkle, I may not touch. If I fall down, I'll lift up.
Linda Evangelista
#79. Dealing with Dillan being a jerk can mess up any saint on a good day. And you know I'm no saint.
Kate Evangelista
#82. Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.
Kate Evangelista
#83. I spotted Dray standing to one side of the room and made my way to him. A mime accosted me along the way, but I did my best Russian-accented English and said, "In my country, we shoot mimes on the spot." The poor guy blanched beneath his white make up and backed away.
Kate Evangelista
#84. Love is my family and friends. That close-knit circle that sticks by you through the years and through it all.
Allen Evangelista
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