Modeling Quotes

“With right fashion, every female would be a flame.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Sprawled out on the photographer’s mattress with my clothes lying in a heap somewhere in the kitchen, I pull the waistband of my briefs down to expose my hipbones, and I think of home.”
― Kris Kidd, I Can't Feel My Face

“Fashion doesn't make you perfect, but it makes you pretty.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Any girl with a grin never looks grim.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprika and dip some lobster in it!”
― Stuart J. Scesney

“Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To be successful in this field, you need to become a problem solver with good
observation skills and a desire to create things. You never stop learning in
this field. You face new challenges with every new project, many of which
require innovative solutions that you must discover on your own.”
― William Vaughan, Digital Modeling

“Yes," I continued, "I discovered this model recently and her style never fails to be mathematically perfect. She seems to come by it naturally. As if she were born resonant. I notice Japanese models tend to do this. Like I said, they seem to have resonance somewhere deep in their culture. But Yuri Nakagawa, she's the best I've ever seen. The best model, with the most powerful resonance. I need her to probe deeper
into this profound mathematical instinct, which I call resonance.”
― Alexei Maxim Russell, Trueman Bradley: The Next Great Detective

“You cannot choose your face but you can choose your dress.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Dresses don't look beautiful on hangers.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“In modeling, the colour of a man’s teeth is more important than his IQ.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Fashion models and financial models are similar. They bear a similar relationship to everyday world. Like supermodels, financial models are idealized representations of the real world, they are not real, they don't quite work the way that the real world works. There is celebrity in both worlds. In the end, there is the same inevitable disappointment" - Satyajit Das, Traders, Guns & Money”
― Satyajit Das, Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives

“I can see where this is going, too. Of course, I can, because I am Alex as well. But I want to dress up in gorgeous clothes and strut up and down the runway like they do in the magazines, swishing my tail. I want to dress up with Amina and Julia and giggle and be girlfriends, arm in arm. I want to be beautiful. I want other people to think I am beautiful.”
― Alyssa Brugman, Alex As Well

“What must it be like for a woman to live with power over men rivaled only by God for the first third of her life, build her identity over her looks, only to feel it slip away as time tumbles by? Feel the shift in how people treat her, as though getting old is a contagious affliction?”
― Tyler Knight, Burn My Shadow: A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life

“Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.”
― John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

“When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprik and dip some lobster in it!”
― Stuart J. Scesney

“Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament

“She only modelled for him once,' Max said stubbornly, leaning the canvases back against the wall and replacing the sheet.
'Once, twice or umpteen times, it's proof she knew Spataro... how shall we put it?... on terms a man who loved her might resent.'
'There are lots of artists in Montparnasse, Appelby, and lots of artists' models.'
'I wouldn't like it. And I bet Sir Henry didn't like it either.'
'There was nothing between Corinne and Spataro.'
'That's the problem, isn't it?' Appelby pointed with the stem of his pipe at the shrouded paintings. 'There may have been *literally* nothing between them.”
― Robert Goddard, The Ways of the World

“I'm friends with a guy who is friends with a former Playboy model. So I guess you could say I'm 1 degree away from 212 degrees.”
― Ryan Lilly, Write like no one is reading

“When life gives you lemons...add melted butter , toasted paprike and dip some lobster in it!”
― Stuart J. Scesney

“Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.”
― George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric

“The secrets of the kitchen were revealed to you in stages, on a need-to-know basis, just like the secrets of womanhood. You started wearing bras; you started handling the pressure cooker for lentils. You went from wearing skirts and half saris to wearing full saris, and at about the same time you got to make the rice-batter crepes called dosas for everyone’s tiffin. You did not get told the secret ratio of spices for the house-made sambar curry powder until you came of marriageable age. And to truly have a womanly figure, you had to eat, to be voluptuously full of food.

This, of course, was in stark contrast to what was considered womanly or desirable in the West, especially when I started modeling. To look good in Western clothes you had to be extremely thin. Prior to this, I never thought about my weight except to think it wasn’t ever enough. Then, with modeling, I started depending on my looks to feed myself (though my profession didn’t allow me to actually eat very much). When I started hosting food shows, my career went from fashion to food, from not eating to really eating a lot, to put it mildly. Only this time the opposing demands of having to eat all this food and still look good by Western standards of beauty were off the charts. This tug-of-war was something I would struggle with for most of a decade.”
― Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir

“An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: "This is a how other people have written about this subject. Read it; study it; think about it. You can do it too.”
― William Zinsser

“Teach your kids by modeling what you claim to believe.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

“Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Healthy entertainment is a beautiful blend of stimuli that can connect with the viewer at a sentimental level, then sow the seeds of a certain idea or feed the mind with inspiration and courage. In short, healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction. This leads to not only an entertained viewer, but also an inspired soul. And that should be the purpose of film-making, and indeed the entire entertainment industry, rather than feeding the general population with garbage.”
― Abhijit Naskar