I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.

I don't spend much money on clothes; I never did.

Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did.

I had always broken the rules.

I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.

I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.

Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.

No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.

The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.

A lot of modeling is how much crap you can take.

There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well.

I discovered myself!

When I went back to modeling, nobody knew how to deal with a 46-year-old model!

I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare.

We need a new religion.

Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

If the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody!

Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.

Fashion is what youre offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.

Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.