Seagull Trigorin Quotes & Sayings

But of course, the most important trick in beating the S-chool game is to know that it is a game, as abstract, unreal, and useless as chess, and that beating it is a trick. The game is important only because (as with chess) there are rewards for playing it well, and (unlike chess) penalties for playing it badly. This is something that almost all successful students know, almost by instinct. I sensed it at ten, and knew it thoroughly and consciously by the time I was thirteen. — John Holt

Live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. I realized today that if I stay on a path of gradual evolution into the man I ultimately want to become, I am going to run out of time before I reach the goal. — Steve Sabol

I love writing songs. — Sade Adu

The purpose of all of this (left hemisphere's way of choosing denial or repression over considering an anomaly) is to impose stability on behavior and to prevent vacillation because indecisiveness doesn't serve any purpose. Any decision, so long as it is probably correct, is better than no decision at all. A perpetually fickle general will never win a war. — V.S. Ramachandran

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day. — Arsene Houssaye

Anything worthwhile is hard, and dancing is very hard, and if you've ever studied dancing of any kind you'd know that to be in precision, three people dancing together. — Debbie Reynolds

NINA
Think of me sometimes.
TRIGORIN
I shall never forget you. I shall always remember you as I saw you that bright day
do you recall it?
a week ago, when you wore your light dress, and we talked together, and the white seagull lay on the bench beside us. — Anton Chekhov

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few. — John Dryden

I always want to know which tracks are the journalists' favourites. — Planningtorock

Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination. — George Eliot