Ryckman Park Quotes

#1. Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#2. With all those stars in the sky, why isn't there enough light for us to see by? We stumble like blinded sheep.'
'As you can see, it is clouding over. The stars can't pierce the gloom; they just wait it out. That isn't the stars fault. It is their custom to stay heavenly.

Gregory Maguire

#3. This is the second Simply Red song on this tape. One's unforgivable. Two's a war crime. Can I fast-forward?

Nick Hornby

#4. It's the playoffs. You find a way to get through.

Steve Finley

#5. KILKENNY STUDIED THE street outside. The bulk of the outlaws seemed to have holed up in the livery stable and they were putting up a hot fire. Others had taken positions behind a pile of stones beyond the street and still others in the bunkhouse. There was no way to estimate their numbers. Some

Louis L'Amour

#6. The girls were flaring at me, as if I was the one who had won. And I wasn't even fighting.

Renee Carter

#7. The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

Yoshida Kenko

#8. Even the safest of books are useless without reading.

Jonathan Friesen

#9. The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.

Wes Fesler

#10. Wanderlei Silva, six feet tall and 205 pounds, boy, until I met you, I didn't know they could stack crap that high,

Chael Sonnen

#11. Calm your tits, pussycat.

Ella Dominguez

#12. In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

Hayley Mills

#13. One of the most incredible secrets of science fiction (although one not too closely guarded) is the fact that 99 percent of its authors do not know even the titles and authors of today's learned works, but still they want to top these scholars with their knowledge of the year 6000.

Stanislaw Lem

#14. Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.

Max Ehrmann