Quotes About Models

The good thing about people underestimating models is that the bar is set so low, you tend to impress people more easily.

I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.

Using predictive models from engineering and public health, designers will plan safer, healthier cities that could allow us to survive natural disasters, pandemics, and even a radiation calamity that drives us underground.

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.

One way to mitigate our risk is to invest in companies with understandable business models.

I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious.

I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.

Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.

Women go after doctors like men go after models. They want someone with knowledge of the body. We just want the body.

I was having the time of my life racing, sprint cars and midgets and then dirt late models. I was doing stuff that I always wanted to do - maybe didn't think I'd be doing it at 28 years old - but I did accept it.

the Middle Ages was the period during which most of the art depicting angels--still used today as models--originated. The New Catholic Encyclopedia says that actually the figural type of the Christian angel was derived from the winged Greek goddess of victory, Nike.

Most of the models have this thing I call slouchy sexy, not only in the way they dress, but in the way carry themselves. I don't think they would look hot in one of my dresses. They are more into A. Wang. Most of my clothes are nerdy sexy.

I must admit that I don't really understand social networking models that well, and I haven't tried to because I have just not been enthused about this whole thing.

There's so many misconceptions about me and my personality. People think I'm not a nice person, you know, or maybe a diva; not just about me, but the misconceptions of other models as well, or supermodels.

All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.

I do not feel that we should set up people as "models"; rather actions, thoughts, principles.

Unsophisticated', he said, cracking himself up again, 'but nubile'. Jesus, where do they get that stuff? Nubile. Try to contain your hilarity. Sophia sat behind the desk in her office in the villa and continued to study the models Kris had chosen for the ads. And I'd appreciate it if you'd warn me the next time you decide to add a mystery vintage to the selection. Last-minute candidate. And it was in the name of science.

In particular we'll look in depth at sermon-based small groups, a lecture-lab model for studying the weekend sermon in-depth during the week. We'll see how they work. We'll explain why they have the power to make your church especially sticky. And we'll discover why so many of the traditional small group models we've tried in the past sound great but don't work all that well in real life.

Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.

In the context of that debate, chaos brought an astonishing message: simple deterministic models could produce what looked like random behavior. The behavior actually had an exquisite fine structure, yet any piece of it seemed indistinguishable from noise. The discovery cut through the heart of the controversy. As May looked at more and more biological systems through the prism of simple chaotic models, he continued to see results that violated the standard intuition of practitioners.

If people decide thin is out, the fashion industry won't have thin models anymore. Have you spent time with fashion people? They are ruthless. They want money. And the one thing they know is people want clothes to cover their bodies. Unfortunately, most people aren't comfortable with their bodies.

From the start, I used a different kind of girl in Nars campaign images. My choice to use models of colour such as Alek Wek, Naomi Campbell and Karen Park Goude was absolutely a deliberate one. I felt that makeup was universal and should apply to everybody.

I grew up loving monsters. I'm just a total monster geek. When I was a kid, I had the Aurora monster models, and I would make them. I loved the Universal horror movies and the Hammer movies. I just had an affinity for them.

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.