"Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest." — Kay Ryan, American poet, born 1945
"What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil." — Kay Ryan, American poet, born 1945
"A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world." — Kay Ryan, American poet, born 1945
"A too closely watched flower blossoms the wrong color. Excess attention to the jonquil turns it gentian. Flowers need it tranquil to get their hues right. Some only open at midnight." — Kay Ryan, American poet, born 1945
"Too much rain loosens trees. In the hills giant oaks fall upon their knees. You can touch parts you have no right to— places only birds should fly to." — Kay Ryan, American poet, born 1945
"When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often." — Meg Ryan, American actress, born 1961
"What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property." — Winona Ryder, American actress, born 1971
"I always have a lot of vents and slits in the clothes I design, even inside the pockets so that I can slip my hands inside my clothes and touch my skin. I want to be able to feel my body naked inside my clothes." — Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer, born 1930
"I think that clothes should be a shelter like a house or a rug. I think that there is that element of protection and a uniform can be just that." — Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer, born 1930
"Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living." — Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer, born 1930
"You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris." — Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer, born 1930
"How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?" — Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer, born 1930
"You, the inexperienced, who learn nothing in the nights. Many angels are given to you but you do not see them." — Nelly Sachs, German-Swedish poet, born 1891