Learning quotes

“- Chris: What do you mean?
- Cathy: She never allowed us have a... dog, or a kitten.
- Chris: What's that got to do with anything?
- Cathy: Because pets die, Christopher. And if we had had a pet and it had died, then we would have learned something about that.
- Chris: About what? About death?”

Jeb Stuart Adams - Chris
Kristy Swanson - Cathy

“To learn is to change. The path of enlightenment is in the middle way. It is the line between all opposite extremes.”
Keanu Reeves - Siddhartha

“I could learn new languages to make you understood all over the world.”

Ewan McGregor - Jerome

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's learning things never taught me nothin'. And books is the worst.”
Madeline Kahn - Betty

“- Loretta Lynn: Doolittle, I can't play that thing!
- Doolittle Lynn: Well, most people can't till they learn how, dammit!”

Sissy Spacek - Loretta Lynn
Tommy Lee Jones - Doolittle Lynn

“Life... is pain. Pain... is everything. You... you will learn!”
Timothy Van Patten - Peter Stegman

“Everything you learned in the neighbourhood, every instinct you’ve got won’t do anything but get you killed!”

Penelope Ann Miller - Gail

“You just stay here with the pork. They're smarter than you anyway. You might learn something.”
Casey Siemaszko - Charles 'Charley' Bowdre

“- Bob: I work, let's say, for the government. We've decided to give you another chance.
- Nikita: What do I do?
- Bob: Learn. Learn to read, walk, talk, smile and even fight. Learn to do everything.
- Nikita: What for?
- Bob: To serve your country.”
Tchéky Karyo - Bob
Anne Parillaud - Nikita

“You think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew.”

Irene Bedard - Pocahontas

“Has there been another goddamn re-write? How the fuck are we supposed to learn our lines when there's a new script every 15 minutes?”
Jenny McCarthy - Sarah Darling

“- Nicky Santoro: What's takin' so long over there?
- Frank Marino: This peter's a motherfucker.
- Jack Hardy: It's workin'. Just keep workin' it. It's comin'.
- Nicky Santoro: Gotta learn how to open these fuckin' things so you won't have to take 'em.”

Joe Pesci - Nicky Santoro
Frank Vincent - Frank Marino
Jed Mills - Jack Hardy

“- Daniel: When do I learn how to punch?
- Miyagi: Better learn balance. Balance is key. Balance good, karate good. Everything good. Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?”
Ralph Macchio - Daniel LaRusso
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“You can't learn by forgetting.”
Will Sampson - Taylor

“- Doc: Aw, that was fun! Even weirdos are cute when they're babies.
- The Great Gonzo: I knew you'd learn to love us!
- Doc: I didn't say that.”

Gerard Parkes - Doc
Dave Goelz - The Great Gonzo

“- Julia: Every week a new set of men, have you noticed?
- Bea: Prostitutes.
- Julia: Do you think so? Where did you learn that?!”

Kate Winslet - Julia
Bella Riza - Bea

“- Dragons Basketball Coach: My players have league scoring records at stake. It wouldn't be fair to them.
- Coach Finstock: I just thought figured you quit now, you can beat the 5 o'clock traffic.
- Dragons Basketball Coach: There's a lot to learn from losing.”
Troy Evans - Dragon Basketball Coach
Jay Tarses - Coach Finstock

“To learn my teachings, I must first teach you how to learn.”
Wes Studi - Sphinx

- Mr. Furious: Am I the only one who finds these sayings just a little bit formulaic? "If you want to push something down, you have to pull it up. If you want to go left, you have to go right". It's...
- The Sphinx: Your temper is very quick, my friend. But until you learn to master your rage...
- Mr. Furious: ... your rage will become your... (continue)(continue reading)
Ben Stiller - Furious
Wes Studi - Sphinx

“I don't think you won it. We lost it - but you lost something, too. You forgot to learn the moral. Because victory was yours, you failed to learn your lesson twenty years ago and now you have to pay the school fees again.”

Anton Walbrook - Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff

“You had better learn how to play the game, and I don't mean just the game of football.”
Mac Davis - Seth Maxwell

“- Gny. Sgt. Hartman: Do any of you people know where these individuals learned how to shoot? Private Joker?
- Pvt. J.T. 'Joker' Davis: Sir, in the Marines, sir!
- Gny. Sgt. Hartman: In the Marines! Outstanding! Those individuals showed what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do! And before you ladies leave my island, you will all be able to...” (continue)(continue reading)

R. Lee Ermey - Gny. Sgt. Hartman
Matthew Modine - Pvt. J.T. 'Joker' Davis

“You can learn a lot from ants. These Brazilian fire ants can teach you a lot about successful societal structure. You see there's one queen in there. The rest are dedicated worker ants. Everybody pulls their weight. Nobody complains. There's harmony and growth.”

David Selby - Dean Buckley

“You and I are riding in the back seat from now on. Because what that missile twister can teach you, you don't need to learn 'til you're in prison.”

Ed O'Neill - Dutch Dooley

This is the way it works. "Aut disce aut discede" - learn or leave. Because it's of no consequence to me, one way or the other.

Mel Gibson - Justin McLeod