Ditteke Mensink Quotes & Sayings

It's always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened. — William Kentridge

I fall down on my back and instantly feel the pain of my tail splitting in two. The two parts glow a bright green that fades to a dull white glow. I cannot believe my eyes. My black scales turn to skin the same color as my torso. I reach down and touch the space between them that never existed before. It is a moist opening, like a perpetual wound. I insert a finger. It doesn't hurt. It feels just like the inside of a clam. — Leza Cantoral

At least, when there's fear, there's some human part left in you. Once that's gone, though, there is nothing. — Liz Thebart

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. — John Charles Polanyi

Our gods were fallen faster,

and fallen larger.

The day was duller, duller

was disaster. Our charge was error.

Instead of leader we had louder,

instead of lover, never. And over this river

broke the winter's black weather. — Catherine Wing

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. — Nan Fairbrother

They were all tall and slender with heads groomed like manikins' heads, and as they talked the heads waved gracefully above their dark tailored suits, rather like long-stemmed flowers and rather like cobras' hoods. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop. — Harold Jeffreys

We know that Obama wasn't vetted through the campaign, and now, you know, some things are coming home to roost, if you will, which is inexperience, his associations, and that ultimately harms our republic when a candidate isn't-isn't vetted by the media, that cornerstone of our democracy. — Sarah Palin

Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts. — Billy Sunday