Sumsion Park Quotes & Sayings

Yes, a great library - a library as magnificent as this one - was a dangerous arsenal, one that kings and emperors feared more than the greatest army or magazine. Not a single volume from the Spanish Rooms would survive, he swore, sniffling into his cup. No, no, not a single scrap would escape this holocaust! — Ross King

For Cantonese - because there's no standardized pinyin system - I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the whole script in my own Cantonese pinyin. — Daniel Wu

I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise. — Elizabeth Berg

For his sake, I'm glad he disappeared. I don't blame him. I know it was an act of self-preservation. — Hannah Hart

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you. — Eckhart Tolle

What was sad in the world he did not superficially gainsay; what was glad in it he did not cynically slur; and all which was to him personally enjoyable, he gratefully took to his heart. — Herman Melville

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person. — David Johansen

In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald. — Woody Allen

A street vender was grilling meat-on-a-stick over a sidewalk hibachi. We assumed it was beef but the custom was not to ask. The sizzle was irresistible, we bought three. — Brian W. Allen

According to Time magazine, global warming is 33% worse than we thought. You know what that means? Al Gore is one-third more annoying than we thought. — Jay Leno

I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun. — Bryce Dallas Howard

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning. — Ang Lee

It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall