Francien Vunderink Quotes & Sayings

I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally. — Myfanwy Pavelic

Simon had never noticed before, but she wore a silver ring on her right hand, with a partner of flames around the band of it, and a carved L in the center. It reminded him of the ring Clary wore around her neck, with its design of stars.
"It's the Lightwood family ring," she said, noticing where his gaze was fixed. "Every family has an emblem. Ours is fire. — Cassandra Clare

Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand. — Grace Noll Crowell

All apostolic ministry in some sense involves this return to the founding message as well as purpose. The missional task that follows is to reinterpret it radically into various contexts. To use the words of leadership gurus Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, the key to dynamic entrepreneurialism is to "preserve the core and stimulate progress."15 Thus, there is both a continuity and a discontinuity in the revitalization process, involving both a conservative dimension and a radical one. Radical traditionalism involves a rediscovery of the founder's vision, but it must be matched with spectacular innovations that are as yet undreamed of.16 As such, it is the apostolic intrapreneur's (the Petrine apostle) basic method of renewal. — Alan Hirsch

There's nothing you could say that would shock me. — Laura Prepon

Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust. — Germaine Greer

I find, then, I am but a bad anatomist. — Wolfe Tone

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics. — Charles Peguy

Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science. — W. H. Auden

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles. — Mohamed ElBaradei

I am a political junkie. During a presidential campaign, I will often buy a couple of newspapers a day just to keep up. — John Ortberg