Tyra Banks Modeling Quotes & Sayings

I don't think me walking away from modeling was scary for me. In hindsight, I think it was very risky, when you talk about risk. Because it paid the bills. — Tyra Banks

The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations. — Immanuel Kant

When modeling agencies were saying that I was too big and gaining weight, my mom said, 'OK, we're going to discuss what they're saying over pizza, and we're going to plan the future of your career which doesn't involve you having to be skinny.' — Tyra Banks

Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ. — Watchman Nee

People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come. — Tyra Banks

If I tried to start modeling right now, I wouldn't be a supermodel because it's all about celebrity. — Tyra Banks

I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That comes first. My mother always told me that came first. — Tyra Banks

All the seemingly loose threads and contradictory claims of the rest of the Bible come together in Jesus. — Timothy J. Keller

I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone. — Tyra Banks

I actually don't miss modeling and I think the reason why is because of America's Next Top Model. — Tyra Banks

They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage. — Kathi Appelt

Beauty's easy. Modeling is not just about being pretty. — Tyra Banks

With the whole supermodel thing, even when you're not really modeling anymore, people still call me that. And I'm like ' ... retired.' — Tyra Banks

On 'America's Next Top Model,' I mentor girls on television. When that TV goes off, I actually mentor other girls in the modeling industry - girls that have not been on 'Top Model,' but who appear in 'Vogue' worldwide. — Tyra Banks

Innovations until now conceived by no one at all — Israel Kirzner

Socratic, they call it in college. All kinds of back and forth, designed to elicit truths implicitly known by all rational beings. — Lee Child

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time. — Caroline Corr

Modeling is being a ho, but making it fashion. — Tyra Banks

By no means am I trying to change the modeling industry. — Tyra Banks

Modeling chose me, I didn't choose modeling. — Tyra Banks