Renn Quotes

#1. Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses protagonist Violet with plenty of chikara (power) and Renn's fresh, spot-on author's voice is irresistible. I couldn't put it down!

Alane Ferguson

#2. You cannot go and warn him," Saeunn said sternly. "It is too late. You would never find him."
"I know," said Renn without turning her head.
To herself she added, But I've still got to try.

Michelle Paver

#3. You think ancient soul-eating demons are terrifying? Try a run-in with Renn's crazy ex-girlfriend if you want a real scare." (July Henry)

Megan Applegate

#4. I live on my own, happily, and I've never wanted children, but it did occur to me one day that there's part of me in 'Torak' - he's a loner, I'm a loner - as there's part of me in 'Renn,' who's quite waspish. I think, in some senses, 'Torak' is the son I never had.

Michelle Paver

#5. "So I've got to find a mountiain that nobody's ever seen. And work out the answer to a riddle that nobody's ever solved. And kill a bear that nobody can fight."
Renn sucked in her breath. "You've go to try."

Michelle Paver

#6. We women are a lot more powerful if we see ourselves as fighters on the same side. But it's easier to judge others - their choices and their bodies - than to think about the struggles we share.

Crystal Renn

#7. Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

Samuel Butler

#8. I didn't really give them anymore than one choice, soda or no soda. They didn't ... whereas we put a lot of stock in the differences between soda ...

Sheena Iyengar

#9. The problem is that we as a society simply accept these unrealistic standards: that you have to be thin to be perfect, to be beautiful, to be successful at work and to have a good relationship. And it is making us sick. This self-loathing is crippling women.

Crystal Renn

#10. I've been collecting crystals for many, many years for healing purposes and decoration. I guess since my name is Crystal, I have no choice.

Crystal Renn

#11. We can always find each other, we girls with secrets.

Crystal Renn

#12. Besides being a model, I'm a human and a woman.

Crystal Renn

#13. Too many of us feel that we have to be perfect, in order to be loved.

Crystal Renn

#14. The girls everyone considers the "prettiest" are not always the most interesting or ambitious people.

Crystal Renn

#15. By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages of traditional texts - the Bible, the Koran, the Rig Veda - but physicist-priests will preside over the ceremonies.

Frank Tipler

#16. Stubborn breaks when it don't bend,

Colson Whitehead

#17. I absolutely believe that when one goes on vacation, it should be pure decadence.

Crystal Renn

#18. I'm very lucky that I have people styling my hair and teaching me how to work with it, but it wasn't always like that. Growing up, I had extremely wavy and thick hair and that can be very overwhelming - you end up with the same ponytail every day.

Crystal Renn

#19. No matter what size you are, you must be healthy. I focus on health as a model, whether it's doing yoga, hiking, kickboxing - those things bring me joy.

Crystal Renn

#20. If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.

Chuck Palahniuk

#21. Models should just be beautiful women who inspire others. They won't be starving themselves because they are being accepted for themselves. Any thinner than today's ideals would be impossible. Any thinner means dead.

Crystal Renn

#22. Anorexia is a disease that happens to people, mostly women and girls, who have obsessive, perfectionist personalities.

Crystal Renn

#23. Process is your friend, but process also dictates what you can do.

Denis McDonough

#24. You can never go wrong with a nice red lip. I'm not afraid to wear it during the day or basically any time because I wear a lot of black and it's a great backdrop for it.

Crystal Renn

#25. All women bring something different to the table and we have to appreciate them all.

Crystal Renn

#26. I am a good model because I have mastered my craft. I have accepted my body, I know it well and I know how to move in front of the camera.

Crystal Renn

#27. I have made a choice to listen to myself even if everyone in the entire world doesn't agree with what I think. I know me, at the end of the day and I know what I can handle emotionally and what I can handle physically.

Crystal Renn

#28. Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt.

Gautama Buddha

#29. There were moments in a person's life that they would carry with them until their dying day, and Finely knew the moment Jasper's heart broke would be one of those for her.

Kady Cross

#30. The frightening thing is that, to enter hell, all one has to do is nothing.

Jared C. Wilson

#31. I was anorexic. I was in hell. Now I eat what I want, and I'm still a model. So you see, it works.

Crystal Renn

#32. There's been a lot of focus on my body, but it's taught me to appreciate myself no matter where I am.

Crystal Renn

#33. Photoshop is an art, and you can do a lot with it. Change the atmosphere through different lighting and make the pictures look more interesting.

Crystal Renn

#34. I believe in trying foods from all over the world, going to markets and finding jewelry and furniture and just treating myself well. It's important for me creatively to travel.

Crystal Renn

#35. The model for the U.S. Constitution was not ancient Greece but the Iroquois Confederacy. Then,

Gloria Steinem

#36. Redken is a brand I've been using since I was a kid, my grandmother introduced it to me, my mother used it, so obviously I was very aware of the brand, so when I heard we were going to meet and potentially do something in the future, I was very excited.

Crystal Renn

#37. Focus and having energy is the most important goal when choosing my activities and how I treat myself.

Crystal Renn

#38. A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.

Oliver Butterworth

#39. I think there's a lot you can learn from everybody; everybody has a story and a strength within them.

Crystal Renn

#40. Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

Susan Sontag

#41. The 1993 Trade Center bombing was obviously frightening. It could have been much worse than it was.

Mary Jo White