Underpainting Quotes

#1. My hands are out of practice, my eyes disused. Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration ... are too much for me. I have lost confidence: perhaps all I will ever be is what I am now.

Margaret Atwood

#2. It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.

Monica Johnson

#3. Beautiful books, full of knowledge and beauty and ideas. All lost, thanks to a mad monk who, in the end, became a little too mad even for the church he served.

Jodi Taylor

#4. Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.

Gotye

#5. As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.

Brian Williams

#6. I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

Barbara Walters

#7. In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him.

Louis IX Of France

#8. People let their guard down a little more when they're eating.

Shelley Moore Capito

#9. If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!

Vladimir Putin

#10. I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.

Mads Mikkelsen

#11. Just to gloat at mum and dad's golden girl brought low. But

David Nicholls

#12. The Hurricane
The tree lay down
on the garage roof
and stretched, You
have your heaven,
it said, go to it.

William Carlos Williams