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“The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.”
― Tiffany Madison

“A smart model is a good model.”
― Tyra Banks

“Eustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity. On Olympus she would have done well with a little preparation. She had the passions and instincts which make a model goddess, that is, those which make not quite a model woman. Had it been possible for the earth and mankind to be entirely in her grasp for a while, she had handled the distaff, the spindle, and the shears at her own free will, few in the world would have noticed the change of government. There would have been the same inequality of lot, the same heaping up of favors here, of contumely there, the same generosity before justice, the same perpetual dilemmas, the same captious alteration of caresses and blows that we endure now.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

“Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort. ”
― Naomi Campbell

“Whatever you do don't let anybody talk you into doing something about the way you look ever.”
― John Casablancas

“But -- my dear, my heart is BROKEN! I have seen the perfect Peter Wimsey. Height, voice, charm, smile, manner, outline of features, everything -- and he is -- THE CHAPLAIN OF BALLIOL!! What is the use of anything? ...

I am absolutely shattered by this Balliol business. Such waste -- why couldn't he have been an actor?”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

“Any files I give to the model are downsized (typically 800x1200 pixels)... By not giving out my high resolution files, they cannot be used without my knowledge.”
― A.K. Nicholas, True Confessions of Nude Photography

“Shenanigans is a financial model on the catwalk.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“I’m slowly beginning to realise how ironic it is that I’m so good at learning lessons inside school, and so terrible at learning any outside it.”
― Holly Smale, Forever Geek

“In the four years since she’d left home, my eldest sister had grown into a gossamer slip of a woman with hair like spun sugar and a face out of Greek mythology. Even in still pictures there was something vaporous and hyaline about her, like she might ascend into the ether at any moment. It was perhaps why journalists were forever describing her as ethereal, though I’d always thought of Grey as more earthy. No articles ever mentioned that she felt most at home in the woods.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

“I loved all of this boy: the good bits and the bad. And I knew that, when it came, I would love his sadness too.”
― Holly Smale, Forever Geek

“Models are the mothers of invention.”
― Leland Wilkinson, The Grammar of Graphics. Statistics and Computing.

“I love when I capture moments of expression.”
― Adrienne Posey

“When I would later ask her, What makes someone beautiful?, she would tell me: 'I think it’s what’s inside someone. I think it’s kindness in someone’s heart that makes them beautiful.' And she would add, 'And it’s how they treat others.' Compassion is beauty, too.”
― Ashley Asti, Up: A Love Letter to the Down Syndrome Community

“Ne făurim concepte mentale despre căminul nostru, despre copaci, despre alți oameni, despre electricitatea care curge din prize, despre atomi, molecule și alte universuri. Aceste concepte mentale sunt singura realitate pe care o cunoaștem.”
― Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

“Now and then, you get to put somebody else at the top of your list.”
― Holly Smale, Forever Geek

“Because the people I love always find their way back in the end.”
― Holly Smale, Forever Geek

“At this point trillions of pictures have been taken of Kate Moss in an effort to capture her beauty, style and essence. Yet our appetite for more, more, more rages on unabated. She's paid very well to sell us things that we might previously have had no interest in buying. That's because anything she puts near her body is instantly transformed into the coolest thing ever, because She is the coolest thing ever and nobody can explain why. It's just a fact.”
― Alexa Chung, It

“-Papà, è tutto sotto controllo.
-Come fai a dirlo? -domanda. -È soltanto squallido, Victor. Squallidissimo.
-Papà, la vita è squallida.
-Ma il primo premio non lo devi vincere proprio tu.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

“Pazite kome zavidite. Život nikome nije dao večnu tapiju za sreću.”
― Ivana Stanković, Strast

“But it was the center of the room that drew my eyes, for there was a great circular table, covered in a glass dome, on which sat a model of Arcadia.
I approached it slowly; it was so delicately detailed, I felt it would crumble if I breathed, despite the glass. There was the ocean, crafted of tinted glass so that it glimmered like real water. There were the southern mountains, pocked with entrances to the coal mines; there was the river Severn, there the capital city of Sardis, still half-ruined by the great fire of twenty years ago.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“In that case, maybe I will immortalize myself in one-eighth scale."
Months ago, I toured a startup specializing in personal clones. For 108,000 yen, roughly one thousand dollars, a clerk will create a 3D model of your head, then print it and attach it to the body of a doll. I'd teased Akio with a pocket-sized Izumi. He'd been appropriately horrified.”
― Emiko Jean, Tokyo Dreaming

“I don't understand models. They starve to stay thin so that they can feed themselves..”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Your armpit is very handsome."
This made him laugh. "Only an artist would think an armpit is handsome."
"But it is... the line of it is, anyhow. The muscles and shadows and hair..." She traced the muscles and shadows and hair with her finger as she said the words, and her voice drifted.
She sat up suddenly and reached for her sketchbook and quickly rendered him, that arm stretched over his head, his bare chest, and long legs, his lolling, spent manhood resting in curling hair, his wonderful face reflecting smug satisfaction, easy intimacy.
"You're a very good model," she told him approvingly. "You hold cooperatively still."
"I don't think I could move if you pointed a gun at me," he murmured.
She kissed the birthmark in the shape of a gull on his outstretched wrist, then leaned down and kissed his nipple, tracing it with her tongue, tasting it the way he'd tasted hers. His hand trailed down her back, she saw unmistakable signs of stirring below.
"You're moving now," she teased.
He gave a short, very distracted laugh. "Siren," he said absently. Clearly enjoying the run of her tongue over his chest.”
― Julie Anne Long, Beauty and the Spy

“Life is sweet when the whisky's sour.”
― Jazz Egger

“The man was handsome, and he taught English in the same department as me--- and the second he showed up at my apartment and saw my bookshelf, he laughed.
"You turn them around when guests come over, right?" he asked, motioning to the sanguine embraces and lusty women across the covers. He plucked one off the shelf--- a vintage-looking bodice ripper with Jason Baca on the cover, inches away from dragging his tongue across the woman's neck. "This Fabio's not exactly a Chuck Palahniuk."
"That's not Fabio."
"My mistake, they all look the same."
I sighed. "Well, that's a pity."
"Why?"
"Because you have to leave. The door's there, if you've forgotten."
He chuckled nervously. "I didn't... You're kidding."
"No. I didn't judge you when you said you collected swords. You don't put them away when company comes over, do you? Besides, romance outsells every other genre--- by a lot, and it's still growing even when sales in every other genre are declining. In the US alone, romance sells about nineteen billion units a year." I plucked the paperback from his hand. "You can take that to your next fight club. Now there's the door.”
― Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

“She had put on the suit of “model�� many years before and now she couldn’t take it off, and it hurt and confined her.”
― Mary Gaitskill, Veronica

“Imagine ten pictures of me at Carson Models. In nine of them, I’m a real stupid girl, but in the tenth, I’m somebody who could be a model. John was looking at the tenth one, and because he was, I did, too.”
― Mary Gaitskill;, Veronica

“In the field of behavioral economics, neoliberalism allows that human behavior often deviates from the model of Homo economicus. The deviations considered, however, focus on the ways in which passions and perceptual distortions fail to maximize utility as the model demands. The model is the ideal: behavioral economics emphasizes the ways in which we fall short of it. The question of whether the model falls short of us is rarely raised.”
― Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke