Modelled Quotes

#1. I had spent the whole of my savings ... on a suit for the wedding - a remarkable piece of apparel with lapels that had been modelled on the tail fins of a 1957 Coupe de Ville and trousers so copiously flared that when I walked you didn't see my legs move.

Bill Bryson

#2. Mendeleyev was said to have modelled the table on the card game solitaire.

Bill Bryson

#3. That would have been taken out of the Munrowe voice two or three generations ago through being educated at schools that modelled themselves on the English public-school system, even if they were in Scotland.

Alexander McCall Smith

#4. I think I've done two shoots in my underwear ever. They both happened to be for Calvin Klein. But that tag - 'underwear model' - I just can't get rid of it. And it's such a bizarre, specific thing - underwear. It's like I never modelled clothes.

Jamie Dornan

#5. I haven't modelled since I was 12 - that was a one-time thing, and I did it as a kid to make a little money to save up for university. Acting is my first love as well as writing and eventually producing and directing.

Kyle Schmid

#6. The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Theodor Adorno

#7. Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on my controlled father. I wanted his freedom and his focus. To him, a family was an aquarium: controlled, contained. To the women I knew, a family was everything.

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#8. So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.

Chris Roberson

#9. A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone ... but it is an incomplete art which privileges the intellect to the detriment of the senses.

Hans Arp

#10. Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone.

Edward Hall

#11. Even if the whole of the man-made world could, through relentless effort and sacrifice, be modelled to rival St Mark's Square, even if we could spend the rest of our lives in the Villa Rotonda or the Glass House, we would still often be in a bad mood. 7.

Alain De Botton

#12. I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

Dolly Parton

#13. Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled or predicted through profiling and sophisticated propensity algorithms.

Chris Cunningham

#14. So Jesus came and modelled a lifestyle of power and purity because the power of the Spirit of God was on him. He was trying to show those of us who would follow what life would be like in someone who had no sin and was completely empowered by the Spirit of God.

Bill Johnson

#15. The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

Kenzaburo Oe

#16. I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way.

Penny Lancaster

#17. If I ever modelled for Calvin Klein I'd give myself to a flock of fans to beat me silly with a baseball bat.

Joey Jordison

#18. What Kate wore, whether on the street or the red carpet was much cooler to them than what she modelled. Her paparazzi photos were becoming indistinguishable from her editorials.

Maureen Callahan

#19. As Henry Moore carved
or modelled his sculpture every day,
he strove to surpass Donatello
4. and failed, but woke the next morning
elated for another try.

Donald Hall

#20. No other party in Germany came near to attracting so many shady characters. As we have seen, a conglomeration of pimps, murderers, homosexuals, alcoholics and blackmailers flocked to the party as if to a natural haven. Hitler did not care, as long as they were useful to him.

William L. Shirer

#21. heard enough. I berated them for gossiping

Khaled Hosseini

#22. If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

Marianne Williamson

#23. Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Alice James

#24. This was, after all, Ankh-Morpork, where a man walked free even if he was not, strictly speaking, a man.

Terry Pratchett

#25. If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off
you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.

Clint Eastwood

#26. With this life I give you love. Cherish your Clan as you cherished your kits, for now they all are your kin.

Erin Hunter

#27. You won't find better people than in New York.

Harper Lee

#28. Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.

Jonathan Galassi

#29. To the patriots I say this: Take that long eternal look. Stand up for freedom, no matter what the cost. Stand up and be counted. It can help to save your soul-and maybe your country.

Ezra Taft Benson

#30. A soul's a sort of a fifth wheel to a wagon.

Herman Melville

#31. I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.

Rick Santelli

#32. I've had hard coaches all my life.

Chris Webber

#33. Press Freedom will never be under threat in South Africa for as long as the ANC is the majority party

Nelson Mandela