According to Chekhov...

When you're thirsty, and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean, that's faith. When you start to drink and finish only a glass or two, that's science.
-- Anton Chekhov

Verbing

I seem to be a verb.
-- Buckminster Fuller

This sentence no verb.
-- Douglas Hofstadter

Verbing weirds language.
-- Calvin & Hobbes, by Bill Watterson

Winnie the Pooh 02

Pooh enquires into metaphysics:

"Hallo, Rabbit," he said, "is that you?"
"Let's pretend it isn't," said Rabbit, "and see what happens."

-- A. A. Milne