Models Quotes · Page 45

Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to…

— Tatjana Patitz

I do think that the long poem speaks for an inner need for continuity. We live in a time of so many…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

— Keri Russell

I went to all-girls' schools my whole life, so every model of leadership that I saw was a young girl or a…

— Nancy Pelosi

I think we have powerful role-models among us in the American West. Certainly the Hopis, a timeless civilization that understands sustainability and…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first?

— Robert Henri

We [the Subban brothers] are role models to a lot of kids, not just black kids, but all kids out there and…

— P. K. Subban

My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling…

— Philip Pullman

I remember trying not to disrupt everyone else in the room, fumbling around trying to figure out how to use the medium…

— Don Watson

That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior....I think Obama gets up every morning with a worldview that is fundamentally…

— Newt Gingrich

The longer-term the option, the sillier the results generated by the Black-Scholes option pricing model, and the greater the opportunity for people…

— Michael Lewis

When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise…

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models.

— Sarah Palin

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

— L. J. Smith

Own one idea. Complete it. Map the current model of purchase and usage. Change how it is done so at least some…

— Michael J. Silverstein

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Back in the day, a lot of our instructors in nonfiction were actually fiction scholars. So they would bring in stories as…

— John D'Agata

You can, of course, be a sexy, strong female and be a good role model.

— Ricki-Lee Coulter

People like Johnny Depp are an exception. He is the current model of what an actor should be. His body of work…

— Dustin Hoffman

Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice...

— Sathya Sai Baba

Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and…

— Charles Simic

I'd have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple of…

— Rebecca Romijn

Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with…

— John Henry Holland

Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm.…

— Murray Rothbard