Canadian Quotes

I do have a lucky pair of underwear.

When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.

When I started in the business, I was told I had three good years in me.

We have this expression, Christy and I. We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

We don't vogue, we are 'Vogue'.

On days when I do not work, I am working on my image.

If they had Nautilus on the Concorde, I would work out all the time.

I'm so glad this worked out for me, I do think I know how to be a good model.

I love, love, love fashion so much. That's why I became a model in the first place.

I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

I don't happen to think magazines should be full of thin people. What I do say is that we can all work a little harder with what we have. It is possible to achieve a better body shape and heart rate with nutrition and exercise.

I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have rather been watching.

I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don't have to speak.

Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.

As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won't go anywhere until they're done with me.

It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.

I don't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.