Quotes (Page 48)!

  1. "I'm trying to think of a way to do this without sounding smutty." ~My Verne prof
  2. "Porky's... Oh, god, I don't know where that came from. I want that out of my head. Now!" ~My Verne prof
  3. "War has been replaced by a capitalist machine. It's a Dick Cheney paradise." ~My Verne prof on Paris in the Twentieth Century
  4. "If you cannot understand something I have written, come to me and, if I can, I will descipher it." ~My Verne prof
  5. "Oh, god, I loathe Windows. It's just a [freaking] disaster. It's the worst [freaking] operating system in the world....You can tell I'm jetlagged." ~My Verne prof
  6. "I apologize for the quality of that; it was obviously captured in an official capacity." ~My Verne prof
  7. "The only creators who we can be sure are responsible for those things attributed to them are those who sign publishing contracts." ~My Verne prof
  8. "We'll have a lot to talk about when we get to Hell." ~My Verne prof on the new Turlington evangelist keeping people from coming to class
  9. "The reptile brain goes, 'This isn't right. Get to the surface!'" ~My Verne prof on SCUBA diving
  10. "You just shouldn't look too hard at certain aspects of the natural world." ~My Verne prof on differences in heights of the water levels in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
  11. "Abime - it's the magic decoder word of Verne." ~My Verne prof
  12. "The whole point of the balloon is to get them the [heck] away from everything." ~My Verne prof on The Mysterious Island
  13. "Once Adam named all the animals, everything was screwed." ~My Verne prof
  14. "Freud said - and I think it actually is relevant...which is probably why I thought of it..." ~My Verne prof
  15. "He's French. They don't do dentistry. He doesn't go there." ~My Verne prof
  16. "You don't work around these things, you have to work through them." ~My Verne prof on racism in the 19th century
  17. "It's got a real slam dunk ending." ~My Verne prof on The Mysterious Island
  18. "It would be untoward to kill a student. That would take a toll on my student ratings... 'He was a good professor, but he killed a student.'" ~My Verne prof
  19. "Maybe he overexerts himself. Maybe all that being quiet is what kills him." ~My Verne prof on Nemo's tiptoeing around Lincoln Island
  20. "It's doing it right now, you know." ~My Verne prof on Niagara
  21. "It's still doing it." ~My Verne prof on Niagara
  22. "It's from The Mysterious Island! Where's Nemo!" ~A guy in my Verne class on an inexplicable coconut in The Meteor Hunt
  23. "We'll talk about a twenty meter meteorite landing like a soft boiled egg on the coast of Greenland and sliding into the ocean instead of blowing the [Tartarus] out of everything... Verne isn't really interested in planet-destroying asteroids." ~My Verne prof on The Meteor Hunt
  24. "If I could, I would teach in jams." ~My Verne prof
  25. "Whatever kind of deity would throw junk at his creation...?" ~My Verne prof
  26. "The heavens are whimsical. Sometimes they throw rocks at us." ~My Verne prof
  27. "It could be made of cream cheese, but people don't crave cream cheese the same way [as gold]." ~My Verne prof on the meteor from The Meteor Hunt
  28. "The end of the world nearly arrives, and then it doesn't. It's quite funny." ~My Verne prof on The Meteor Hunt
  29. "I want the big pot of gold to land on my head and destroy my land because then I'll be worth more." ~My Verne prof
  30. "It's been a turbulent semester." ~My Verne prof
  31. "One of Verne's last novels that he wrote while he was still alive." ~My Verne prof on The Kip Brothers
  32. "It's really big. It's like totally huge." ~My Verne prof on the Arc de Triomphe
  33. "Oh dear, your first literature class was a Harpold class? I've broken you for other professors." ~My Verne prof
  34. "White chocolate, dark chocolate, walnuts, honey, enough flour to keep the butter together..." ~My Verne prof on cookie recipes
  35. "Um, that's a...that's a...that's a great answer, but it's wrong." ~My DIC prof
  36. "I subtract five from four and get a positive number..." ~My DIC prof
  37. "Three-point-two minus four is point eight." ~My DIC prof
  38. "The signs absolutely DO matter, but I like to work in absolute values." ~My DIC prof
  39. "Every time you hit a key it gives off a small pulse that can be picked up by bad guys." ~My Fields prof
  40. "Energy is conserved at all times...so don't worry." ~My Fields prof
  41. "We are running out of symbols in different alphabets. Lots of collisions..." ~My Fields prof (ironically, we don't use symbols from his native alphabet)
  42. "So, never hide under a tree - a tall tree - in a thunder storm. No, I'm serious. This is not a joke." ~My Fields prof
  43. "Now we are ready to assemble the final solution." ~My Fields prof
  44. "If you come to the lecture, you at least know where we are and how lost you are." ~My RF prof
  45. "It's almost like Power. I mean, I don't wanna knock power..." ~My RF prof
  46. "So, it's a mess, yeah?" ~My RF prof
  47. "That's really what engineering is all about. You learn some basic things, then you go out into the world and see a cow and turn it into a sphere." ~My RF prof
  48. "Are you going to dip your cell phone in liquid nitrogen?" ~My RF prof
  49. "Maybe on an exam, you will not know �, but, in real life, you will always know �." ~My RF prof proving how pointless exams are
  50. "Ask me questions if I'm not clear...and I'm pretty sure I'm not clear." ~My RF prof
  51. "I know this will scare some of you...or most of you...but this could be electric field or magnetic field...or voltage! Okay, no more fields." ~My RF prof
  52. "I find you guys today not so animated." ~My RF prof
  53. "That is exactly the mess I have handed out today." ~My RF prof on his lecture notes
  54. "I'm starting to become handicapped for this job." ~My RF prof on being nearsighted and reading Y-Z Smith charts
  55. "The resistor is NOT a real resistor." ~My RF prof
  56. "These are a few things that might impress people. Probably not your girlfriend or boyfriend." ~My RF prof
  57. "The Chinese invented it and found out it wasn't any food, and got rid of it before the Europeans ever heard of it." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  58. "If you... No. I was going to say something snarky [about rushing a fraternity], but I don't." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  59. "I speak with semi-colons all the time. And hyphens." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  60. "Epic poetry was like...y'know...Homeric rap." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  61. "Listen up - he's gonna do something cunning. He's very crafty, this guy." ~My Technologies of the Book prof imitating Homer in "The Odyssey"
  62. "You don't want to remember everything you ate for breakfast every day for the rest of your life. You might want to do something else with those neurons." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  63. "Oedipus didn't have an Oedipus complex...he's just a bunch of letters on the page." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  64. "You should read with your kids because they might be reading smut." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  65. "Here are two people making love that turn into a crocodile." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  66. "You smush 'em, they don't work anymore." ~My Technologies of the Book prof on scrolls
  67. "[Your desks] were designed by torturers for the CIA." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  68. "[Rearranging my bookshelves] turns into a week-long orgy of self-flagellation." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  69. "...otherwise the roof falls in, which isn't very good for the books, either." ~My Technologies of the Book prof on wasting library space on support columns
  70. "As though somehow a thirteen-year-old can know for [excrement] what they want to do." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  71. "A magical book, not a real book, because this is the magical world of Borges." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  72. "Don't use the royal 'we,' for heaven's sake...unless you are royalty." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  73. "Socratic dialogue doesn't work with thirty-five people." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  74. "Every now and then, there are fires or the Nazis get put into power." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  75. "If I can't [decipher my handwriting], I'll reimagine what I might have meant." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  76. "Reading demands a surface, and the torso is not an ideal one." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  77. "And so, he argued that Shakespeare was Bacon." ~My Technologies of the Book prof on Orville Owen
  78. "Bacon was a very busy man." ~My Technologies of the Book prof on Orville Owen
  79. "It's completely cool. It's totally, totally, totally, totally cool." ~My Technologies of the Book prof on...something. I don't even remember what.
  80. "Human beings are [jerkfaces]." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  81. "I read on the sofa; I swim at the beach." ~My Technologies of the Book prof on beach reading
  82. "Everyone should have nudie magazines. I'm all in favor." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  83. "Actually, if you're from Mars, I wanna know." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  84. "I'm the white-heterosexual guy here, so I'm the one who gets to pretend I'm the norm." ~My Technologies of the Book prof on purple-shirt-white-slacks day
  85. "The O.C. You WANT that HOUR back. And you'll never ever get it back." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  86. "Poe is, like, freakin' out all the time." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  87. "'Aw [dagnab]...that's funny.' 'They just blew everything up,' funny." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  88. "I still had some gestation to do." ~Hillary
  89. "I'm not the kind of person who says, 'Information wants to be free.' [Tartarus], no. Rent wants to be paid." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  90. "It ends with this much more ambiguous sort of weird...[stuff]." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  91. "It's got cat flatness." ~My Technologies of the Book prof
  92. "We really encourage you to make mistakes." ~My Junior Design prof
  93. "You sort of learn that on the fly, so do not panic." ~My Junior Design prof
  94. "There's a love of...motion in the wiggling baby." ~My Junior Design prof
  95. "Customer is typically not an...expert in terms of engineering." ~My Junior Design prof showing why no one likes engineers
  96. "Do a test where you, I don't know, simulate a baby or borrow a baby..." ~My Junior Design prof
  97. "They used to blow up like little party poppers. It was fun." ~My Junior Design lab tech on electrolytic capacitors wired backward
  98. "I love these little cameras because...they're so terrible." ~My Junior Design lab tech
  99. "If you try to pull these chips out without the tool, the pins will snap and it'll roll over and one of the little pins will go under you fingernail and you'll curse and it'll hurt. And then a month later, you'll do it again." ~My Junior Design lab tech
  100. "Protel's waiting to choke and lose it all, so I'm gonna go ahead and save it." ~My Junior Design lab tech

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