Quotes (Page 39)!
- "Rewatching [Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire] after I've viewed season two [of Doctor Who] a few times is, I'm pleasantly amused to say, probably gonna be one of the entertainment highlights of my life. ('Look!! (*snerk*) ... The Doctor is doing the DARK MARK, ha ha!!!! (*chortle, snort*),' etc.)" ~Draca Darkwingette
- "I'm weird, but I have such FUN with it." ~Draca Darkwingette
- "If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all." ~Alan Quartermain
- "Pride and Prejudice 2: Pride and EXTREME Prejudice; Cover photo: Colin Firth holding a shotgun. Tagline: They called him Fitzwilliam one too many times." ~Shalen of MRFH
- "At twenty-three, single, without even the faintest hint of a boyfriend on the horizon, and absolutely zero desire to try and _get_ a boyfriend at this point in my life ... well, on my list of concerns, how I might react to my baby throwing up on me is on my list of worries right BELOW what I'll do if I realize that another co-worker of ours is actually a Slitheen in a skin suit." ~Draca Darkwingette
- "I'm getting old." ~The Ninth Doctor
- "Blimey, you can smell the testosterone." ~Rose Tyler
- "Your face is, like, green, and people ask you why, and you say, 'Guacamole was raining from the sky because God loves me. Or my avocado tree is ripe. I haven't decided yet.'" ~Hillary
- "This is the second morning that I've found a gob of some strange, pinkish-orangeish, vaguely gel-like substance in my bathtub. Either my shaving cream is undergoing some sort of metamorphosis, or a strange alien growth is spawning from the shower curtain. Given the frequency with which I clean my bathroom, it's really fifty-fifty." ~Draca Darkwingette
- "I don�t like anyone before eleven a.m. on a weekend." ~Tom Sloane in The Angst Guy's "A Midsummer Nightmare's Daria"
- "Generally speaking, I prefer a little more sense in my nonsense (Terry Pratchett is my hero) but by the end of [Spirited Away], most things had fallen into place. Kinda sorta." ~Sue of MRFH
- "Hey, come back here and stop conforming when I'm talking to you!" ~Justin of MRFH
- "Good guys with darkness inside them are always way more interesting, and that game proved that Guybrush is one of them. Everybody takes him for this innocent, harmless little pile of fluff, but if you dig around in that fluff too long...you'll cut yourself on a hidden _razor blade_." ~Captain Chaotica!!
- "There's nothing as irritating as a smart-ass paperclip." ~Inexplicably scribbled along the side of one of my papers, presumably by me
- "I think even Bill and Ted skipped [Homeric] times, and Doctor Who always brought his own tea. No wants to go back to those times, do they? It�s cool to write fiction about those times, but it�s only cool when you�re writing the stuff in air-conditioned goodness. " ~Kyle from MRFH
- "It was nice to see Sean Bean get to play someone who survives the movie. It's probably why Odysseus is looking so smug as the end credits roll." ~Shalen from MRFH on Troy
- "Don'tcha just _hate_ when you're trying to have a nice wedding, and the Cirque de Soleil bursts in uninvited and starts singing to you? Gah, so many weddings have been ruined by that (shakes head sadly.)" ~Captain Chaotica!! on the "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" video
- "[Mos Def] makes me not trust...Hollywood....I don't have a problem with Mos Def...I just have a problem with Mos Def _as Ford Prefect_. The same way I would have a problem with anyone who can't _speak English_." ~Jick from Kingdom of Loathing
- "[Skim milk] is only sought out by people who want something that's like water, but with an eerie blue tinge, and added tastelessness. And no, I don't know how you can have an additional absence of something, but the makers of skim milk do." ~Hucklebubba
- "I've long since accepted the apparent fact that vasectomies and liver spots are infinitely more horrifying to some people than the prospect of having all of their internal organs catch fire." ~Hucklebubba
- "If you can do Half-Life or Doom or...whatever the latest shoot-em-up game is, you can do [PSpice]. It's simple." ~My Electronic Circuits prof
- "You never want to use your circuit as a fuse." ~My E. Circuits prof
- "What else is V-sub-T? Thermal voltage. Forget that with MOSFET. Turn that off. ::click!:: Be like Data: turn that emotion chip off." ~My E. Circuits prof
- "What kind of voltage are we going to get? A lot. Maybe a lot squared." ~My E. Circuits prof
- "Math is beautiful." ~My (female) Signals prof
- "You know the difference between grad students and undergrad students? If you say 'good morning' to a room full of graduate students, they write it down." ~My (female) Signals prof
- "I'm joking, but I'm serious. I'm giving you serious jokes." ~My (female) Signals prof
- "At the end of this class, your brain will be all wiggly." ~My (female) Signals prof
- "You can outsource a lot of things, but it would be hard to outsource defense." ~My (female) Signals prof
- "These days whether CDs are music or not is questionable. I have teenagers out the wazoo. Has anyone heard Pantera? My god, that stuff is terrible. Megadeath is nothing compared to Pantera. What's the range of human hearing? 20 to 20kHz... I can guarantee my son can no longer hear 20kHz. I'm surprised he can still hear anything." ~My (male) Signals prof
- "When you use the scope, it keeps records because it knows how stupid we are." ~My (male) Signals prof
- "I like to leave [the demonstration] until the end of the lecture because it's so exciting...to allow for applause!" ~My (male) Signals prof
- "I'll turn the strobe off for our own sanity, but I'll leave the fan on because it's such a hot lecture. That was a joke. A really bad joke." ~My (male) Signals prof
- "When I was younger...when the whole world was younger... The plates were closer together when I was young." ~My (male) Signals prof
- "When I was in school and they weren't afraid to be a little geeky, we called [the sinc function] 'octopus on a fence'." ~My (male) Signals prof
- "You've gotta have two times an infinite number of samples... That doesn't work very well." ~My (male) Signals prof
- "I put it over there again. At least I'm consistently stupid." ~My (male) Signals prof
- "Oh, yeah. There's a function for everything." ~My (male) Signals prof
- "Just shut up for an hour, that's all I want. Monday, Wednesday, Friday." ~My Signals prof
- "The answer to all Statics problems: nail gun! Just bolt it down!" ~Annonymous Electrical Engineering student
- "Someday you will be an old parrot...or an old person." ~My (female) Signals prof
- "Are we going to have anything exploding? No. Safe. Safe and sound." ~My (female) Signals prof
- "'Close enough to within an order of magnitude.' What's the English translation of that? 'Wrong'." ~My Analysis prof
- "I'm an engineer. I never read the manual." ~My Analysis prof
- "You don't have to know nuthin'. You're wasting your time going to school." ~My Analysis prof on using Mathcad
- "This is confusing as [Tartarus]." ~My Analysis prof on the epsilon-neighbourhood definition of continuity
- "You're an engineer - you'd damn well better learn how to use the computer." ~My Analysis prof
- "Since I got off drugs, it's a little hard to picture [4D representations of complex graphs." ~My Analysis prof
- "[Unit-step functions] are not something a gentleman deals with." ~My Analysis prof as a mathematician
- "PSpice has a message: 'You're out of your tiny little mind'." ~My Analysis prof on unit-step functions
- [Laptop makes loud, urgent beeping noise] "What's going to happen? Is it going to blow up?...It's a Dell and it's running Microsoft. Anything could happen. Dick Cheney's probably listening to us." ~My Analysis prof
- "The other day in the middle of class, this thing very helpfully downloaded updates and shut down for me. Microsoft gets a lot of nasty emails from me, but I don't think they pay any attention." ~My Analysis prof
- "They're gonna wrap you up in a little white coat and take you away if you try to do the determinant by the definition. Let's do one!" ~My Analysis prof
- "This is a pain to the ninth decimal place to prove." ~My Analysis prof
- "Plagiarism is really dumb, so if you ever think it might be a good idea, realize that you are dumb." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "The O.C. will come into the Victorian period. Believe me, it will happen." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "How many Victorian Literature classes do you get to read books with pictures in colour?" ~My Victorian Lit teacher introducing The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- "I will misspell words on the board. Do not correct me; I know they are misspelled, I just don't know how it is spelled." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "You used to have a small old fake submarine, and now you have Pooh's Playland." ~My Victorian Lit teacher on Disney World
- "Disney has taken over all English literature." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "I actually kind of like [the LoEG movie] for its kind of crazy [badness]....When you got to Venice next time, try and take a drive." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "Sodomy is not illegal, it's the forcing of it that is. So don't go home and say, 'I can't do that because my English teacher said it's illegal'." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "They get Jekyll...and then they have Hyde." ~My Victorian Lit teacher on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- "Orphan boy makes good? Oh, wait, that's every Dickens novel." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "If you're offended by cursing, I'm sorry... I enjoy it." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "I'm not expecting creative genius, but it would be nice if there were some nuggets of goodness." ~My Victorian Lit teacher on our final projects
- "At this point, you're like, 'Duh, Jonathan!'" ~My Victorian Lit teacher on Dracula
- "He's a reader... He is a studier--a studier? He's a scholar. [mocking self] 'I'm a studier.'" ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "Transformers were the coolest toys ever, especially when they were made with metal and you could really hurt people with them. Now that they are made of plastic, it's just not the same." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "I always want to talk to the novels, but they never talk back." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "If you didn't get the sexual imagery when she's sucking his blood, you just weren't reading the book." ~My Victorian Lit teacher on Dracula
- "Whale bone, you know, doesn't bend. So remember that next time you want to...breathe." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "High cheekbones? But high cheekbones are pretty!" ~My Victorian Lit teacher on Dracula's "degenerate" characteristics
- "Basically, Hyde is supposed to be degenerative... I'm not giving anything away." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "Most people aren't wonderfully radical 24/7...and most of them have really terrible personal lives." ~My Victorian Lit teacher on being disappointed by the biographies of historical progressives
- "I have a feeling I would get something like Victorians in Space. While that sounds really cool, I have a feeling it would be lame." ~My Victorian Lit teacher on our final projects
- "'Come and suck my juices...' How can you get more... If you don't get that, I don't... I don't know what to say." ~My Victorian Lit teacher on "Goblin Market"
- "The Victorians were the Victorians. It's not like they had gay pride parades every weekend." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "It's coded, right? So it's not like it comes out and says 'Lizzie and Laura had sex and it was great'." ~My Victorian Lit teacher on "Goblin Market"
- "When you're John the Baptist, you're not allowed to go around sleeping with whoever you want." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "I think they should just give you Prozac with [The Wasteland]" ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "Restrain your nerdness at parties... There's no Heigle at parties, there's only pies and other fun things." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "Wilde would so skewer Wordsworth, and then Wordsworth would be sad and be like, 'I want to go back to Tinturn Abbey.'" ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "You can have your own alternate reality, but it doesn't gel well with, you know, being in college." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "Wow. I'd rather be asleep than watching Alexander." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "If you were at a dinner party with Hamlet, would you enjoy yourself?" ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "Do you guys wanna have class or something?" ~My Victorian Lit teacher during a lull in conversation during our break
- "By the way, never try and conquer Russia... Land war in Russia, not a good idea." ~My Victorian Lit teacher on Axis and Allies
- "I hate handing back the first essay. You always get a bunch of looks like, 'You used to be my friend!'" ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "If you don't have a sense of humour about the Victorians, you're not reading them right." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "We're all sort of fond of the Old Testament...some more than others." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "That's how you know that you're a big person - if there's a bust of you and it's in a library somewhere." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "He notices there's less elephants, but he never thinks, 'Well, I just killed sixty of them...'" ~My Victorian Lit teacher on Alan Quartermain
- "[Tom Sawyer] can get other people to paint fences for him. That's really important in your superheroes. He clearly belongs in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "It's entertaining yet...slightly boring." ~My Victorian Lit teacher on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- "I love talking about Disney Land because it's the perfect example of everything." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "Think before you recall [books at the library]." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "The library website is not exactly the most helpful place on the planet." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
- "Don't sacrifice your holiday on this research." ~My Victorian Lit teacher, who apparently actually understands her students have more important things to be doing
- "I apologize for my profession if you do have classes on [the Wednesday before Thanksgiving]." ~My Victorian Lit teacher
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