Quotes / But I Read a Book About It

"My Dad brought a lot of enthusiasm to his interests. He would read everything he could on a subject and he usually became somewhat expert at whatever it was."

— Bill Watterson, in Exploring Calvin and Hobbes

"The higher reaches of the military art were at first denied to these "unprofessional" officers but they embarked on a serious and successful programme of self-improvement. In December 1777, the Hessian captain Johann Ewald noted that it was common to find American officers in posession of the standard texts of Santa Cruz, Frederick, Turpin de Crisse, Grandmaison, Jeney, and Tielke as well as excellant small handbooks recently published by their own countrymen."

— Christopher Duffy, The Military Experience in the Age of Reason

"I wasn't lucky enough to be around for [the fusion experiments]. But I read over a few hundred years of reports! Nyeheheh..."

—Peridot, Steven Universe, "When It Rains"

Colonel von Holstein: So, Rumpletross, you will fly the new machine!
Captain Rumpletross: Jawohl, Herr Colonel!
<Beat>
Rumpletross: But… How will I learn to fly?
von Holstein: The same way we learn everything else in the German Army… From the book of instructions!

— Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines