Lewis Carroll
- Lewis Carroll's Fourth Rule of Learning
If possible, find some genial friend, who will read the book along with you, and will talk over the difficulties with you. Talking is a wonderful smoother-over of difficulties. When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity!
Lewis Carroll
- Lewis Carroll's First Rule of Learning
Begin at the beginning, and do not allow yourself to gratify a mere idle curiosity by dipping into the book here and there. This would very likely lead to your throwing it aside, with the remark "This is much too hard for me!" and thus losing the chance of adding a very large item to your stock of mental delights.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Nobody Ever Became A Writer Just By Wanting to Be One
Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter - as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.
Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time
- Pechorin on enemies
I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one's guard, catching every glance, the significance of every word, guessing at intentions, frustrating their plots, pretending to be tricked, and suddenly, with a shove, upturning the whole enormous and arduously built edifice of their cunning and schemes - that's what I call life.
Airplane! (movie)
- Dialogue Between Rumack and Captain Oveur
Captain, how soon can you land? I can't tell. You can tell me - I'm a doctor. No - I mean I'm just not sure. Well, can't you take a guess? Well, not for another two hours. You can't take a guess for another two hours?
