#mode

I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else. ↗

— John Tenniel

#carry #else #figure #i #models

I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare. ↗

— Kate Moss

#around #because #day #end #ever

I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model. ↗

— Kate Moss

#model #quite #say #thought #vain

All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to. ↗

— Kate Moss

#day #full-on #go #hours #i

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#badge #big #big deal #both #conventional

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#events #ever #leading #modern #modern times

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#every #gandhi #generation #i #models

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#far #however #impossible #inherent #least

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#model #new #new york #perfect #york

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#being busy #busy #consciousness #everyday #happiness