#models

Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#force #get #his #his way #i

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#children #driving #how #learn #life

The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#believe #come #forget #models #only

I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV. ↗

— Daisy Fuentes

#asked #day #got #i #into

Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#blue #effects #expensive #extremely #front

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#cannot #drawings #imagination #models #only

I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#book #characters #collection #house #however

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states. ↗

— Evo Morales

#capacity #change #change things #colonial #combine

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth. ↗

— Evo Morales

#aside #changing #consumption #debt #earth

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