“Scholars have an inordinate respect for long books, and have a terrible rancune against those that attempt to cheat on them. They cannot bear to imagine that short-cuts are possible, that specialism is not an inevitability, that learning need not be stoically endured. They cannot bear writers allegro, and when they read such texts—and even pretend to revere them—the result is (this is not a description without generosity) 'unappetizing'.”

Source: V for Vendetta

Letter to Harold Adam Innis (14 March 1951), published in Essential McLuhan (1995), edited by Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone, p. 74
1950s

Mumtaz, November, 1966 (Filmfare, December 7, 2011)
Quotes from Mumtaz
Variant: Women are meant to be loved and not understood.
Source: Best of Filmfare http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/mumtaz/spicerack.htm

Autobiography (1821) in notes describing some of the debates of 1779 on slavery.
1820s

From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.

On The Algebra of Logic (1885)
Context: I have taken pains to make my distinction of icons, indices, and tokens clear, in order to enunciate this proposition: in a perfect system of logical notation signs of these several kinds must all be employed. Without tokens there would be no generality in the statements, for they are the only general signs; and generality is essential to reasoning. … But tokens alone do not state what is the subject of discourse; and this can, in fact, not be described in general terms; it can only be indicated. The actual world cannot be distinguished from a world of imagination by any description. Hence the need of pronoun and indices, and the more complicated the subject the greater the need of them.

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, RACISM AND CIVIL RIGHTS

Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)

Source: Meditations