Mendenberg Quotes

#1. I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.
- Ruth Mendenberg

Carol Matas

#2. Deep inside me something says don't feel anything, go back to sleep, when you feel, it hurts. When you love, people die.
- Ruth Mendenberg

Carol Matas

#3. I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up.
- Ruth Mendenberg

Carol Matas

#4. (B)ut who can start over when memories never leave you?
- Ruth Mendenberg

Carol Matas

#5. You can insist on a different end to the story.

Monica Lewinsky

#6. We may hop when the gods say 'frog,' but we still get to choose how fast and how high.

Katherine Lampe

#7. The stars and planets don't disappear just because it's daytime.

Tami Egonu

#8. Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I've had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true.

Barry Sonnenfeld

#9. He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.

Jesse Owens

#10. What I think happened to the new arenas is that you need some memories. I remember going when the Staples Center first opened and it was like, 'OK,' but a couple championships later, and all of a sudden it becomes your house. You have to stake claim to it.

Kevin Connolly

#11. I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.

Jonathan Kozol

#12. The flight I'm most excited about is the one that takes me back to Northern Ireland to visit family and friends.

Rory McIlroy

#13. Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.

David Hockney

#14. The main thing for a gymnast is total concentration while competing. At such moments one has to put everything else behind. I know that other gymnasts can do so with a smile, but I can't. And I don't even try to.

Ludmilla Tourischeva

#15. Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

E.L. Doctorow

#16. She approached his throne warily, looking at Poseidon and Apollo, who were both grinning at her, holding bouquets of flowers and boxes of candy. She though, uh-oh.

Rick Riordan

#17. Callipygian. Having shapely buttocks. Nice one, Bridge.

Stephanie Perkins