"Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games." — Babe Ruth, American baseball player, died August 16, 1948
"You just can't beat the person who never gives up." — Babe Ruth, First baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season, September 30, 1927
"Each climber loses one finger or toe once in a while. This is a small but important reason for Polish climbers success. Western climbers haven't lost as many fingers or toes." — Wanda Rutkiewicz, First European woman to reach Mount Everest summit, died May 13, 1992
"Everyone has their own Everest to climb." — Wanda Rutkiewicz, First European woman to reach Mount Everest summit, October 16, 1978
"The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection." — Kay Ryan, American poet, born 1945
"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 November 19, 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 October 29, 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 May 25, 1930