Porizkova Quotes & Sayings

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice. — Robert Frost

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian. — Paulina Porizkova

So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many exploded convictions, many perished certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel that they are always right and who attach a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced. — Aldous Huxley

Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you, so can the things it brought. — Paulina Porizkova

Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced. — Paulina Porizkova

The most important thing for building a robot that you can interact with socially is its visual attention system. Because what it pays attention to is what it's seeing and interacting with, and what you're understanding what it's doing. — Rodney Brooks

I have worked every day since the age of fifteen, supporting not only myself, but also helping a sizable family when needed. — Paulina Porizkova

When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work. — Paulina Porizkova

Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice. — Art Alexakis

I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong. — Paulina Porizkova

The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted. — Paulina Porizkova

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving. — Paulina Porizkova

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries. — Hillary Clinton

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young. — Paulina Porizkova

Models are back to what they were in the '70s: clothes hangers. — Paulina Porizkova

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame. — William Shakespeare

Vision without execution is just hallucination. — Henry Ford

Almes never make poore. — George Herbert

Love is a flame. It's when you get to know each other again. It's the fights that will follow your first. It's you finding another reason to fall in love with each other. It's both of you never getting tired of swaying to your first dance's song. — Nessie Q.

Fame is an interesting phenomenon. — Paulina Porizkova

I wonder what life will be like a millennium from now, when the average age will be nearer to one thousand. Will we all be renaissance children, skilled at every art and science, because we've had time to master them? Or will boredom and slavish routine plague us even more than it does today, giving us less of a reason to live limitless lives? I dream of the former, but I suspect the latter. — Neal Shusterman

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs. — Jackson Browne

I think I can always look back and say my mom and dad would have done this or suggested that in a particular situation. I just really feel blessed to have had them as parents. — Tony Dungy

I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become. — Paulina Porizkova

In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms. — Elizabeth Alexander

The truth is an offense but not a sin
Is he who laugh last, children! is he who win

Is a foolish dog bark at a flying bird
One sheep must learn, children! to respect the sheperd — Bob Marley

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego, — Paulina Porizkova

I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday. — Paulina Porizkova