Ruckle Park Quotes & Sayings

It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist. — Ruth Reichl

To guard our character with unwavering commitment, our best protection comes from being humbly aware of our vulnerability. — Lee Ellis

The sky was a fading red and nothing remained of the day save for a line of molten gold slowly lowering on the western horizon. — Scott Lynch

I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson in his mug shot. But as I think Keith Richards is pretty great-looking, I'm embracing that part of me. — Natalie Massenet

The complexities of the English language are such that even native speakers cannot always communicate effectively, as almost every American learns on his first day in Britain. — Bill Bryson

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious. — David Mamet

I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive. — Guy Sajer

The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity. — W. Somerset Maugham

To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense. — Michiel Huisman

When you work with your hands, you learn to appreciate how easy it is to earn money talking. — Jay Leno

My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time. — Linda Sunshine

Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth. — T. S. Eliot

And since we don't just forget things because they don't matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers and forgets in a pattern whose labyrinthine windings are an identification mark no less distinctive than a fingerprint's, it's no wonder that the shards of reality one person will cherish as a biography can seem to someone else who, say, happened to have eaten some ten thousand dinners at the very same kitchen table, to be a willful excursion into mythomania — Philip Roth