Everyday Quotes; High School

Various quotes from everyday life. I swear, people actually said these things.


"Put your head in there. Now turn a little. Now move yourself up just a bit . . ."
-The Spanish teacher in a surprisingly successful attempt to get her roommate stuck in a drying rack.

"We've got to have that parking meter!"
-And that would be the Spanish teacher again.

"I don't know how we got to Madonna. She's not even from Canada."
-Mr. Wiebe- history/geography teacher- ponders just how the class has gotten so off topic

"You're more likely to die in a car crash than on a plane."
"The Concord Jet in Paris hit a couple cars."
-Mr. Wiebe and Joe cure a fear of flying

"The leftern most one."
-Mr. Wiebe locates Washington.

"I love jokes that have states talking to each other."
-Ryan, the kid every one should have to deal with at some point in their lives.

"Like 'what did Alaska say to Hawaii?'"
"They don't say anything- they're states."
"But they think they do."
"Who?"
"The people who make the jokes."
"Well, what do they say?"
"I don't know. Something funny."
-Ryan and Dustin. Better known as tweedledum and tweedledee

"Right on the 'oast'. Uh . . . ocean. The coast."
-Mr. Wiebe explains the location of a beach house

"Calgary, Alberta is famous for its rodeo, and . . ."
"Isn't that where they crucified Christ?"
-Mr. Wiebe and Ryan, demonstrating yet again his infinite knowledge of both history and geography.

"Just appease the old hippie!"
-Mr. Levin- English/drama/creative writing teacher- dispenses advice to complaining students

"Remember when we watched that? I don't."
-Ryan reminisces

"Wiebe, you're being the devil. You're growing horns- look at 'em."
-Dustin gets out of a test

"Don't they have people to do that?"
"Yeah. I am a people . . . a person."
-Ryan and Mr. Wiebe in another stunning display of linguistics.

"Ya gotta consider where this was."
"Kansas?"
-Mr. Wiebe and Ryan ponder life in the midwest

"They must feel stupid having no dirt."
-Ryan muses about Canada. Really.

"It would suck if we had another ice age."
"I don't think that's a problem right now."
"I'd move to Phoenix."
-Dustin and Mr. Wiebe

"We really gotta worry about global warming."
"I wish it would warm up faster than this."
-Mr. Wiebe and Nina, reflecting on this latest snow storm

"Don't bring back Mad Cow."
-Mr. Wiebe

"Are we talking about *golf*?"
-Dustin tries to take part in the conversation

"She's been calling every night and harassing my answering machine."
"So if we don't do this- what?"
"She'll call and harass you! Cause I'm giving her your number!"
-Mr. Levin casts stones and makes threats while Jim tries to get out of an assignment

"No really. There are some horrible creatures that just deserve to be consumed."
-Julia. Every one should meet this girl. Really.

"Order. Order. Order."
-Another classic Levin moment

"The terrorists in Central America are . . ."
"Wait. Central America? Like in Kansas?"
-Mr. Wiebe tries to teach and Dustin tries to learn

"Now I'm scared to death of nuclear holocaust, the Ebola virus . . ."
". . . and Canadians."
-Ryan and Dustin

"Some one stole our dirt!"
-Mr. Wiebe

"Any drawbacks?"
"Well- I get Malaria."
"*You* get Malaria?"
"Yeah."
"Well I would think that'd be a drawback, yeah."
-Host of a really odd travel video interviewing some random guy in Africa

"I want a Jewish theme."
"Guerrillas!"
-Ryan and Sayer

"So I was talking to her . . . I'll tell you a little story."
-Either Ryan or Zoë. I don't remember which.

"So then I had to turn the computer upside down to *drain* it."
-Mr. Levin fixes his laptop

"I've never been in a car with a *passenger* yelling at other cars. That's the driver's job. What else are they supposed to do?"
-Julia puts an argument to rest

"That's almost like a Saturday Night Live Skit."
-Zoë remarks on the Protestant Reformation

"Ew. Freshmen eat in here."
-Ryan warns against eating at the tables

"Are we a western?"
-Ryan

"I've decided not to care anymore."
"About germs?"
"Yeah."
-Sadie and Jessie discuss hygiene

"Does this mean every one should be paranoid?"
"*YES!!!* No- just kidding."
-A random student joins the long list of those completely terrified of Mr. Levin

"I'm not a chicken, Sean."
-Jessie explains biology

"Woohoo- we have tables. We're still animals."
-Josh makes a good (though highly sarcastic) point

"Here we are. Another day in . . . what class is this?"
"History"
". . . history."
-Dustin and Kelsey start the day

"You guys are seniors and you will- hopefully- graduate on June 6."
"At what time?"
-Ms. Durocher and Dustin, eager to leave high school

"The . . . thing. I really hate to use that word, but . . ."
-Jared, not knowing that he's just put himself in a scene straight off Aaron Sorkin's desk

"I'm going to Canada next week."
"Bring back dirt."
-Flannery and Mr. Wiebe (Notice any running themes?)

"Why dirt?"
"Well, it's gonna be pretty hard to find cause- you know- the glacier pushed all the dirt away."
-Flannery and Mr. Wiebe indirectly make fun of Ryan

"There's not enough dirt. That's why I want Flannery to bring some back."
-Mr. Wiebe

"Is Martha's Vineyard in the Arctic Circle?"
-Ryan. Did I mention his astounding knowledge of geography?

"Shalom shalom girl."
"What's up Ezekiel?"
-Cody and Zoë, being Jewish ganstas

"Okay. Things people want from Canada: Jess wants chocolate. Wiebe wants dirt. And Laura wants a guy named Brian."
-Flannery, who actually made a list

"Wait- this is history, right?"
"Right."
"What's happening?"
-Dave gets confused

"I'm going to go number it right now, so you guys have a little bit of a reprieve."
"I don't know what that means."
-Mr. Wiebe and Dustin; an awkward moment

"So- you know longitude and latitude?"
"Yeah."
"Well, you know how there's a lot of them in America?"
-Ryan tries to get answers out of Wiebe

"I thought of the perfect mascot for this school. A Pitbull."
-Ryan interrupts class with an important announcement

"We could have it chained up in the quad. Put some cars up on blocks."
-Mr. Wiebe expands on that announcement

"No! I'm really good at this!"
-Ryan attempts sports

"I got foot on my hair!"
-Jessie, sleep-deprived and across the country from her own bed

"I'm pretending I'm Chinese."
"Do the Chinese do that?"
"They fly!"
-Sadie and Jessie, having not slept for many many hours

"It's cause they're so short. They have better hang time."
-Kristin tries to make logic out of exhaustion

"Look at this place- it's huge. This is incredible. How do they afford all of this? - Oh yeah. The cafeteria."
-Dante, having just paid twenty dollars for lunch

"We can go if Sadie'll stop making out with her ice cream."
-Dante takes charge

"You're the Bill Clinton of teachers."
-Heather to Mr. Wiebe

"Nice vest there . . . Satan."
-Jessie to Mr. Wiebe, after having been teased mercilessly by said history teacher

"Koala bears don't belong in Flagstaff."
-Heather ponders over her role in society

"Okay. It's the ice age."
-Mr. Wiebe gives up

"Jessica, you have a . . . a *person*"
-Zoë grasps for words to describe the opposite sex

"Your friendship is worth- at least- a dollar."
-Sadie gets sentimental

"And then, when it comes up on an episode, you can point and say 'I was there!' Except- you know- you don't have any proof, since you *forgot to bring your camera!*"
-Mr. Wiebe, being Satan

"You'll find no herpes here."
-Anne spreads the good news

"For a billion dollars I'd sleep with a *pinecone*."
-Julia

"My calves are so disgusting. You could eat them."
-Marja, during an interesting lunch break

". . . and then we can go on with our lives. Only, this time, with cookies."
-Adriane

"I don't wanna talk about it. Just take my shirt off."
-Soooo not what you're thinking.

"Can you dive off a cruise ship?"
"I suppose, if you wanted to."
"No- but I mean, can you get back on?"
-Dustin and Mr. Wiebe try very hard to understand each other

"It's the year 2000 over here. How's everything on that side of the room?"
-Ryan suddenly understands history

"Lee- get your girlfriend off me."
-Jessie attempts to separate herself from an overly caffinated Kristin

"It reminds me of 'The Land Before Time'"
"Oh yeah! It does! (Pause) Crap. Now I'm picturing myself with dinosaurs."
-Adriane and Jessie take in the scenery

"I want you to be my sister so I can beat you up."
-Mr. Levin to Julia. Those two were made for each other

". . . and that's where McNuggets come from."
-Jessie scares the fast food lovers of the group

"He kept pointing out rivers without water in them. I wondered if he'd given me drugs."
-Julia, upon first arriving to Arizona

"I forgot that there were firemen in olden times."
-Heather

"What happened?"
"You missed it. She just flashed every one."
"No she didn't. I was watching."
-Dustin and Joe discuss Paige

"Do I have to give him his pants back?"
-Zoë, regarding Matt, after she had just broken up with him. And it's really not what you think.

"Well, isn't she *pleasant*."
-Jessie learns sarcasm.

“Brazil’s only slightly larger than the U.S. (pause) They might take over the world someday!”
-Dustin studies foreign countries

“What’s that place in Alaska?”
“Anchorage?”
“Yeah. How do you spell it?”
-Dustin and Flannery have fun with geography

“What if you get lost? How do you find your way home if you don’t know your own address?”
“I look in my wallet. But I forgot my wallet today, so I hope I don’t get lost.”
-Mr. Wiebe learns more about Dustin

“Wow- look at all the ‘Denny’s’ between here and Wisconsin.”
-Dustin, in awe

“Plan the trip however you want. As long as I can eat at ‘Denny’s’ I’m good.”
-Wiebe mocks his students

“Taking pictures of freaks that I don’t know? I’d rather staple my head to the floor.”
-Dustin becomes suddenly shy

“Why do they call tuna ‘dolphin *safe*’? What’s so dangerous about eating dolphins?”
-Josh tries to be animal-friendly

“Those hairless cats are so ugly. They look like raw meat. You just wanna throw ‘em on a barbecue.”
-Tyler offends both cat-lovers and vegetarians everywhere

“Can we stop whistling?”
-Josh gets confused

"And when the volcano blew up, there were, of course, a lot of . . ."
"Indians?"
-Mr. Wiebe and Dustin struggle with political-correctness

"Yeah, I'm liberal- but I'm not, like, Oregon-liberal."
-Nancy

"What's this 'American Literature'? Is that what this class is called?"
-Sadie, on very little sleep

"You can get a mail order bride from there."
-Dustin shares

"You know. Old Faithful- the geyser."
"What's Old Faith . . . oh oh oh! The Trojan commercial! The geyser!"
-Wiebe and Dustin find common ground

"We are- right now- floating on molten rock."
"Don't tell Katie- she'll freak out."
-Wiebe frightens Paige with plate tectonics

"I had to go to askjeeves.com and ask Jeeves 'how do I cheat on my homework?' Except it's not cheating, cause Flannery did it too."
-Ryan explains his history paper

"That river looks like it should be in China."
-Ryan. Will geography class ever be normal?

"I'd migrate to Peru. If it weren't for all the animals."
-Ryan again. I swear, he get's weirder everyday

"The Galapagos were in Washington DC last year."
-Paige confuses Mr. Wiebe

"Dolphins suck."
-Jessie upsets art class

"Is it in use?"
"No- it's art."
-Ryan explains culture to Mr. Wiebe

"Ryan, can I have a cookie?"
"Sure." (Tosses one to her)
"Are those cookies yours?"
"No."
-Katie and Ryan explore dining options

"Well, it *is* a giant tomb."
-Whitney

"It's a very Disney-like-ish ride."
-Laura has fun with words

"Wait- I have one more question. Then you can talk about the night club."
-Mr. Wiebe becomes a student in his own class

"Oh! I have another heart-attack story!"
-Whitney entices Mr. Levin

"Please don't mark him tardy. I was . . . beating him with sticks behind the wood shed."
"Why didn't you get me?"
"Because I'm tired of beating you with sticks behind the wood shed."
-The math teacher and Mr. Wiebe

"'High powered'? Like the ruler of the world or something?"
-Dustin wonders about the new neighbors

"I haven't burped in front of people in a long time."
-Sadie digests

"I hate this baby."
-Heather lets her motherly instincts take over

"Oh my God! The Sixth Sense . . . with robots!"
-Jessie, upon seeing the preview for A.I. for the first time

"But Asia- argghh - it makes me so mad! There are too many countries there. Why can't Russia just control everything?"
-Katie rants on politics

"So- did ya hear? The shepards are going on strike."
"We have shepards?"
"They heard sheep in California."
"There are sheep in Californina?"
-Mr. Wiebe, Katie, and me learn more about our country

"We should go find it . . . with our sheep."
-Ryan makes a joke

"Pay attention young grasshopper. When you can snatch the book from my hand you may go on to Senior English."
-Ms. Martin, English teacher, calms an over-stressed student

"Speaking of Big Brother . . ."
-Ms. Martin introduces the next lesson

"Anyways . . . read my 'Jewel' poem."
-Cody, proving his manhood

"Make artistic love
Not school politics."
-Sign on the doorway to a school board meeting

"Mr. Wiebe- you have two kids, right?"
"Yeah."
"Girls?"
"Yeah."
"I think I had a dream about them last night."
-Dustin scares the hell outa Mr. Wiebe

"Is she shaking to you?"
"Yeah."
"I think she's on crack."
-Ryan and Dustin learn to be considerate

"So Jesus was a carpenter?"
"Yeah. Like his father."
"Wait- God was a carpenter?"
-Dustin and Mr. Wiebe

"Jesus was Christian. No, wait- he can't worship himself can he? What was he?"
-Dustin finds religon class difficult

"Let's be Hindus."
-Ryan

". . . and Antarctica."
"Which shouldn't count."
"Why not?"
"What if it melts?"
-Mr. Wiebe and Ryan

"They said Waterworld was stupid cause the ocean would only rise, like, twelve inches. So I don't think that's gonna happen. But it'd still be cool to have gills."
-Dustin confuses . . . well, everybody

"What was his name? Mel Gibson?"
"Let's just say it was."
-Ryan and Dustin get their facts straight

"I try really hard. Just cause I don't listen in class he thinks I don't try."
-Sayer

"I could never hit any one . . . anymore."
-The Spanish teacher frightens the class once again

"Do you think this is a sign?"
"What?"
"That we're starting our day by going down?"
-Jessie faces an escalator

"If you go to school that day- you're stupid."
-A friendly message from the administration

"Selling souls for sunglasses."
-Wiebe buys black market Oklies

"Poor Jesus."
-Ms. Martin gets sentimental

"My teacher just compared Hamlet to Pink Floyd."
-Another traumatized English student, courtesy of Ms. Martin

"It's okay, Zoë. My mom hates a lot of people."
-Matt, in an unsuccessful attempt to calm his girlfriend

"Yes, his life is so terrible. He's had to sacrifice his pants in order to survive."
-Zoe sarcastically defends her reasoning for giving Matt a hard time.

"She can't kill me if I'm not there."
-Cameron makes sense

"It's hard to take over the world and cook at the same time."
-Adriane gets deffensive

"Cameron, did you change your clothes?"
"No. Hey, wait- when?"
-Adriane and Cameron confuse each other

"Where are my pants?"
-Jessie, inadvertantly, makes fun of Matt

"Why do you only agree with me when I'm right?"
-Donald

"That would have been rude if we didn't know you."
-Holly pokes fun at me

"Darth Maul is spying on me."
-Cameron scares the locals

"God I need some special effects!"
-Adriane compares life to action movies

"Somebody find that kid's stomach."
-Adriane considers becoming a doctor

"Peace, love, and Taco Bell."
-Jessie gets deep

"Some one please get this guy a bongo."
-Adriane helps

"Edward Norton gave it to me. He's my daddy."
-Holly gains our trust

Jessie (on the phone with Matt): "You really need to call Zoe, Matt."
Zoe: "No he doesn't. I despise him. I hate his guts."
Matt: "What did she say?"
Jessie: "She says she loves you and you need to call her."

(On the phone with Matt) "Gotta go. Zoe has knives."
-Jessie

"David Kemper is the devil."
"No, *Rockne O'Bannon* is the devil. David Kemper is the devil's trusty sidekick."
-Maren and Jessie discuss the recent events on Farscape

"I'm not a freak or anything . . . It's just that God's spoken to me . . . Twice."
-Mr. Levin. The scary thing is he's totally serious.

"Jess, this is no joke. Your sister's on the floor *dying*, and all you wanna do is play with Saran Wrap."
-Adriane keeps a straight face

"Let's go camping!"
"Yeah. We can get back to nature with rice cakes and turkey dogs."
-Sarah and Heather respect the environment

". . . And she ate the whole thing."
-Dante finishes his rather amusing story about Zoe getting high

"I would *so* be good at being that girl who lip-synchs in the music videos
because the actual artist is too ugly to put on screen."
-Jessie shows some empathy

"No- I'm an inventor. I'm not supposed to go to work."
-Cameron makes a career choice

"Ow! My eye!"
"Quick! Somebody get the button jar!"
-Jessie finally understands the art of sewing

"Put your finger in my bellybutton."
"No. I shouldn't."
-Abe tries to respect Lauren's body

"So I opened up my back pack in fourth period- and it suddenly hit me that
the sole contents of the thing, besides my math book, were a leopard print push-up bra
and a copy of '10 Things I Hate About You'."
-Meghan

"Some one really should have kicked my ass."
-Sean reflects on freshmen year

"*I* was friends with some Mormons this summer."
-Levin

"The theme of that story is that gay men know the right direction."
-Levin

"You know, it was a really big revelation for Nancy that there are more freaks
and psychos in Flagstaff, Arizona, than in New York City."
-Levin (Nancy just nods emphetically)

"It's not even in the top ten any more. They don't party like they used to."
-Levin talks about the college he attended

"Considering I got a 'B' last class- I didn't write. I didn’t want to soil the world with my 'B' writing."
-Kyle remains bitter about Creative Writing class

"So there's me. I'm playing Judas. I'm betraying Jesus every night."
-Levin talks about his summer vacation

"Arizona? Isn't that in Europe?"
-Sean displays a lack of mental capabilities

"Remember when Carmela talked in class and you assigned us that paper for no reason?"
(Laughs uncontrollably)"Yeah. That was great."
-Kyle and Levin

Meghan: "I'm majoring in computer science and dance. You can't get more geeky than that."
Pearl: "Yeah? What are you majoring in, Jacob?"
Jacob: "Computer science and music."

"Do you have problems making friends, Jacob? I'm going to be sorounded by geeks."
-Meghan dreads college

"See this cappucino? I usually don't drink coffee. But I have the freshmen today."
-Levin dreads his next class

"You don't know what it's like. I'm really scared."
-Levin sums up his experiences with the freshmen class

"I went up to my guidance counsler senior year and told her: 'Mrs. Hunt, I wanna be an astronaut.'
And she looked me in the eye and said: 'You're not smart enough.'"
-Levin recounts the demise of his first passion

"Always remember- if you're good, you can get away with murder. But if you talk…"
-Ms. Bell gives reason to be afraid of third period

"The 'no-parking' sign is really sturdy. I mean, it's attatched to a tree, but it's really on there."
-Kyle interupts english class

"I refuse to read Harry Potter."
"Why?"
"Because it's popular."
"Well, so's Shakespeare."
"Yeah, but he'd dead."
"So if I go out and kill J. K. Rowling, you'd read Harry Potter?"
"Yes."
-Zia and Levin argue the politics of childrens books

"Oh, I forgot- I'm just a bunch of nerve cells. Oops."
-Levin shares the meaning of life with his class

"Don't we not talk about Tom Hanks in here? Isn't that- like- a rule?"
-Nancy cringes at the thought of a 'Cast Away' reference

"Look at you guys. You even look like you bought coffee at a gas station."
-Levin pokes fun at a couple of his students

". . . And he'd whisper putrid nothing in my nipple."
- English class Mad-Lib

"For some reason, whenever I go into a room and Joan is there, she chases me.
So we were running across the decks the other day and I threw one of those
plastic lawn chairs in front of her. And she tripped over it and got all pissy.
Then, yesterday, I went into French class and she was there, and she started chasing me in
the middle of class, so I threw one of those regular chairs at her. And I mean
one of those old ones, with all the sharp metal sticking out everywhere.
(laughing) And she just fell flat on her face. Well then I got scared, so I ran into
the english room and locked the door. And she kept banging on it- I was, like,
scared for my life. And then- oh my god- she threw a *rock* through the *window*."
-Levin makes friends with his students (Thanks to whoever recorded this)

"I went to Spearfish, North Dakota and got on a first name basis with the dry cleaners there."
-Levin recounts another 'how I spent my summer vacation' story

"Did you guys already read 'The Great Gatsby'? Really? Well that helps out a lot."
-Levin bases another lesson plan on the off-chance that his students are well-read

"That was my idea for teaching sex ed. Just say 'penus, penus, penus,
penus, penus' thirty times, so every one can laugh and get it out of their systems . . . Yeah. They wouldn't let me teach that class."
-Levin talks about anatomy

"Never go to Fortsmith, Arkansas. Unless you're, like, writing a book on inbreeding."
-Josh takes his cues from Levin on that whole 'how I spent my summer vacation' thing

"I think it's because he's Native American."
"Yeah. They get fresh with ya all the time." Jonathan and Jim (who're both Native American) make fun of red necks

"I love Cody. He's like a middle-aged, black woman, trapped in a white boy's body."
-Zoe describes Cody to a 'T'

"That's what I'll do. I'll sell my soul for a thousand dollars and a new car. There's gotta be
a billionare out there, somewhere who wants my soul."
-Brent solves his financial problems

"It's not the kareoke that changed me. I don't believe Kareoke can change a person."
-Alicia talks seriously about life-altering events

"Quick! Where's the manual on what to do if you have elephantitis?!"
-Jim becomes suddenly paranoid

"I have a high score of 4,427 in tetris."
"You play that game far too often."
"Do you have any idea how boring French class is?"
"How boring?"
"So boring that I can have a high score of 4,427 in tetris."
-Danny explains how he's not a geek

"Dan, you just got on 'The Price Is Right'- why are you calling me?"
-Haley, on the phone with her brother in the middle of class

"So- I'm not exagerating here- my backpack fell a good 150 feet. And I was like . . . 'dude.'"
-Mr. Anderson, the (new) social studies teacher, impresses the class with his knack for story-telling

"No, I'm fine. It's this weird French tea that I just had. I don't know what was in it,
but now I'm chewing on students' pens and laughing uncontrollably."
-The Spanish teacher seems to enjoy scaring her students

"Studying French history is so much easier… every answer is: 'they surrendered.'"
-Rov (on Slipstreamweb)

"Yeah. So now we've got all these little fishies on Prozac."
-Ms. Bell teaches water conservation. No, really.

"Now, let's do Emily . . . (grins) Not many teachers can say that."
"That's cause not many teachers are perverts."
-Levin talks about a student and Nancy puts him in his place (He, of course, just laughs)

"We could have the Brady Bunch. All grown up. On Survivor. With MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice."
-Meghan gets excited

"So, she said 'Binky' and 'Huevos'. And that was that."
-Levin explains why the substitute quit

"So, I started with the shoe and the egg- but then it just got to be all about my pent-up frustration around my parents."
-Natalie is still bitter about being grounded

"Cookies do not equal happiness."
-Meghan tries, desperately, to be serious

"Where's your Gameboy?"
"Oh- I left it at home. 'Cause when I bring it to school I play it, and all the other teachers yell at me."
-Mr. Levin goes after the pity vote

"Put your Gameboy Advanced away, son. If I can't have mine out, you can't have yours."
-Mr. Levin grows suddenly bitter

"As I said in Creative Writing class after we watched that hard core porn: don't tell your parents."
-Levin institutes job security

"I think I'm a Greek God."
-Levin makes an announcement to the school

"Binky didn't touch you?"
-Levin gets personal

"Stop with the the dang quotes! I'm just living my life!"
-Levin catches a few students making notes

"Well, you don't have to think of them sexually to… I'm gonna stop talking now."
"Good. Me too."
-Mr. Levin and Jessie embaress the hell outa each other

"Jeremy-who?"
"Jeremy-who-has-no-good-ideas-so-he-steals-mine-Johnson."
-Kyle holds a grudge

"I'm a good person, right?"
"Yeah. Except you're overprotective about your cave."
-Adriane puts Stephanie in her place

"Dude, not everything is about big penuses, Mr. Levin."
-Nancy gets fed up with English class

"Featured writers this month [in the school newspaper]? Me and my sister. (grins) No, that's not suspicious."
-Adriane demonstrates her power over the student body

"It's in A minor."
-Tyler describes English class. Really.

"Do you ever feel like life is making fun of you?"
"Sure."
"But I mean- like- you specifically."
-Mr. Levin insults another student

"See, you're mad at me because now *I'm* the beacon light."
-Natalie discovers why Mr. Levin makes fun of her

"Maybe you're not enlightened, Mr. Levin."
"Well… screw you."
-Natalie upsets the english teacher

"My idea is to take away every television in America, and replace it with a big pile of dope instead. At least we'd have more fun."
-Mr. Levin lectures his english class about TV

"I'm a pacifist, but if any one ever tried to hurt my loved ones, I'd kill 'em in a heartbeat. So I'm a weird sort of pacifist."
-Mary, the substitue teacher

"I get a lot of my wisdom from crime novels."
-Mary explains her logic

"I'll give you a dollar to be gay."
-Natalie propositions her brother

"Truly, every one at this school is neurotic enough to be a great play."
-Mr. Levin wins friends

"Are you calling me a smurf?"
-Kristin gets offended easily

"So- uh- yeah. My girlfriend was giving my english teacher a massage. And I was just like: 'uh…'"
-Josh doesn't know what to think

"Brent's pretty cool."
"Brent's a crack addict."
"Yes, but he's surprisingly well read."
-Jessie defends her new friendship

"This is sorta my philosophy about it: history sucks."
-Mr. Anderson. The new history teacher.

"Is there a Spanish word for moonwalk?"
-Mr. Levin interrupts Spanish class with an important question

"Everyday we'll be talking about hell."
-Mr. Levin explains the lesson plan

"Oh my dear- you are so bright! She found the penus in the poster!"
-Levin praises my attention to detail. Rather loudly. In the middle of class. And he isn't being sarcastic here.

"It was great. The entire senior class was sitting on the floor, painting pictures and singing along to 'The Lion King' soundtrack."
-Jessie can't get over the weirdness that are her classmates

"And that will, of course, send you straight to hell for all eternity."
-Mr. Levin talks about being late to his class

"It's just like being in school: you talk, you write, you talk, whatever."
-Ken Waldmen

"Eww, gross! I mean, they're cute, but not in one big wad."
-Rebecca. Science class. 'nough said.

"Carol Burnett is a huge Diva."
"Isn't she? < bitter > She's such a bitch."
-Jim and Mr. Levin; a tangent in English class

"You could take any of the boys... uh, men... um, young men... here and put them in the role of Treplev. Because they're that neurotic."
-Mr. Levin on our high school’s male population

"...adult issues. Adult issues... Okay- sex."
-Mr. Levin works on subtlety

"The Monk is kind of a precursor to Harry Potter."
-Levin again. If you've read ‘The Monk’ then you know why this is funny.

"Don't let your parents see that book!"
-Mr. Levin's parting words at the end of class, aka: the standard warning on all English homework

"Hello. Welcome back to Creative Writing. I'm your host, Mike Levin, and I'll be with you for the next 85 minutes."
-I’ll give ya three guesses.

"Dude, MacGuyver could build a helicopter outa duct tape."
"Duct tape and a Swiss army knife."
"No. Just duct tape. He didn't need no knife; he got teeth don't he?"
-Meghan fighting it out in the middle of American History

"Should I throw in a serial killer?"
-Kial edits his play

"Hey Kial, later on in class, can I run my fingers through your hair?"
-Mr. Anderson

"I don't respond well to blackmail. It usually results in you dropping a letter grade."
-Mr. Anderson

"I saw the empty container and I was like: 'Oh, they had ice cream.' Then I heard the story, and I was like: 'Oh, Zoe had ice cream.’"
-Kristin recalls the ‘Zoe gets high’ story

"Well there was this one time… and for some reason I was holding a broom."
-Cody begins a story

"Now, that's a good question. And maybe I can throw in my 'abstinence' lecture here."
-Mr. Levin

"Well, I'll tell ya now, once you take the sex out, the books get a lot drier."
-Levin

"She said: 'Be good tonight, and don't get into any trouble now.' 'Cause I guess we looked like rebels with our big proton packs."
-Kial talks about Halloween (he was dressed as a ghost buster)

"Is that Christian Slater? Oh God."
-Nancy doesn’t understand cinema

"< In thick Scottish accent > Stop making fun of me. I'm damn sexy."
-Mr. Levin (as Sean Connery)

"A nice little poem about angels... eating her face!"
-Mr. Levin

"Happy Thanksgiving. Here's a test."
-Ms. Bell surprises her physics class

"I didn't say it; God said it."
-Another of Mr. Levin’s standard disclaimer

"I went to this day camp yesterday. And all those little rascals running around just tied my tubes in a knot right there."
-Marja

"He just eats the Oreo on a spiritual level."
-Kelly, on what his son’s Buddha statue does with the Oreo’s he leaves as an offering

"Christopher Walkin is my father and the Weakest Link lady is my mom."
-Natalie puts her home life into perspective for the rest of us

"How long has it been since I smelled the back of my hand? ... And why does it smell like that?"
-Levin freaks out in Creative Writing

"Born in France, raised in New Jersey: I'm just trying to make up for all that bad karma."
-Buddhist Monk on why he became a monk

"Is 'Concho' your real name?"
"'Concho?' From New Jersey? Are you kidding?"
-Buddhist Monk

"I put on a cowboy hat and did a musical interpretation of 'Death of a Salesman' with a guitar that I didn't know how to play."
-Mr. Levin's old lesson plan for the Freshmen class

"These are like the obituaries’ greatest hits."
-Mr. Levin

"I just think that if bin Laden came on over, had some Starbucks, checked out the vegetables, and read a newspaper... it'd all be good."
-Levin dissects world peace

"'There's Mr. Levin with a bonfire of his wife's diaries, shooting roosters again.'… Me in forty years."
-Levin

"Magic flute."
"More like Magic 'Fluke.'"
"Or 'Crappy' Flute.
"Magic 'Poop.'"
"'Extreme waste of time and energy'... Flute."
-Kial and Levin bash their last theatre experience

"Knock, knock."
"Who's there?"
"Magic Flute."
"Magic Flute, who?"
"Magic Flute sucks."
-Kial and Levin

"Dude, do not shoplift from Target on show night!"
-Levin when the star of his show didn't make it to opening night because he was sitting in prison

"We are not going to touch God today. Or become one with the Buddha. Sorry."
-Levin

"I have the sudden urge to rush into Kinko's at three in the morning, screaming 'I need to get this laminated! Now!'"
-Christine

"Can I have my damn pen back? Or are you gonna keep that too- along with my pride?!"
-Natalie holds a grudge

"I don't feel comfortable with you wearing underwear to school."
-Mr. Levin

"Well, Mr. Anderson, you're getting a glorified email."
-Becca, on her term paper

"There are math police?"
"Yeah. And they have really big hats."
-Mr. Anderson

“I woke up and was like ‘what happened to my lung? Where’d it go?’”
-Brent, having smoked a pack the night before for the first time

“So my brother was reading ‘Fahrenheit 451,’ right? And he comes to me and he’s complaining that he doesn’t understand it at all. So he asks me to explain the plot to him, and he asks me to start after ‘they go to the hospital’ and I’m like ‘Alex, when did they go to the hospital?’ And he’s just like, ‘you know. After the barbecue.’ I’m like, ‘Alex, you do know this book takes place in the future, right?’ And he just stares at me and goes ‘…Oh!.’”
-Becca on her brother’s brief foray into the wonderful world of books

“You know who’d set this Alex guy straight?”
“Who?”
“Mr. T. < impersonating Mr. T > I pity the fool ‘don’t read.”
-Kyle has helpful suggestions for Becca’s brother

“Zoe, no seducing, this period.”
-Ms. Bell, in what has quickly become a standard warning for her classes with Zoe

“I understand that I didn’t understand what was so cool about blue hair.”
-Natalie ponders her own adolescence

“What were we talking about where we sounded intelligent?”
“The death penalty.”
“Oh yeah. The death penalty. Yeah, we sounded smart.”
-Mr. Levin

“And then I got hit up for money by a crack addict. Which was really entertaining.”
-Levin on what he did for winter break

“He was cute. You know- in a ‘scary-man-who-dresses-in-drag’ sorta way.”
-Natalie on the boy she met last weekend

“Christmas was sad because I missed my little brothers.”
“Who were with your dad. Who was with the cop.”
“Right.”
-More fun with ‘What I did on my winter break’ stories

“Somebody ate my Walt Whitman.”
-Levin hits a snag in his English lesson

“We’re moderately productive in here. And I use the word ‘moderately’ loosely.”
-Natalie on Creative Writing Class

“Wait just a sec. I marked the pages with my ‘alchie’ parents’ wine coupons…” (Class cracks up) “It’s not that funny… Stop laughing!”
“It’s just so sad.”
-Natalie and Mr. Levin during Natalie’s English presentation

“I have a lot more restraints on my time now than I did when I was starving.”
-Guest speaker

“Oh my God! There’s a lizard in the Grand Canyon and it’s called the I’m-a-paranoid-freak-lizard!”
-Guest speaker

“Did I know Levin is left handed?”
-Zia

“If everyone was like Bono, the world would be a better place.”
-Mr. Levin

“If she doesn’t stop talking about her penus, I’m gonna…”
-Mr. Levin, about Natalie in Creative Writing class

“That’s totally out of context! People are gonna think I’m stupid!”
-Evan, discovering he’s been quoted

“Wait. I have to tell you something… I’m your father.”
-Bridget

“The painting of the emaciated people is so cute.”
-Bridget’s commentary on Spanish art

“I’m tired, I’m cranky, and I’m a loser.”
-Jessie, a late night in Mexico

“Why don’t you suck my toe!”
“Why don’t you… pretend I just said something intelligent.”
-Kristin and Dante, on the plane ride home

“Well, my worst pornography story…”
-Haley embaresses Mr. Levin in an airport

“Incest is best; that’s why we got married.”
-Levin, on his wife

“I’m such a free-sample freak. It could be a free-sample of shit and I’d be like ‘Oh my God!’ and freak out.”
-Natalie

“Why doesn’t any one have a band called ‘three-inch penus’ yet?”
-Another Levin outburst in the middle of class

“Kirstin Dunst is a fat hoe.”
“Is that a poem?”
-Cody and Mr. Levin in Creative Writing

“I’m not gonna tell my mom that she’s like chocolate between my lips.”
-Natalie trying to write a poem for Mother’s Day

“I wanted to lick you all over.”
“Not something I want to hear from a teacher.”
-Mr. Levin and Jessie, another awkward moment

“It was like Revelations was coming true, and I was being attacked by frogs and locusts and bycilists.”
-Levin describes his drive to work

“I was so ‘Jedi Master’ yesterday. I have now done things with a music stand that no other teacher has done.”
-Levin kicks a few students’ asses

“Did you just call me ‘pumpkin-tits’?”
-Natalie gets offended

“If you called me ‘squash-tits’ that would be weird.”
“That could be a Broadway number.”
-Natalie and Levin

“Did I ever tell you I saw a Rod Stewert concert?”
“Is that a pick-up line?”
-Natalie and Levin

“Well, now that the conversation’s come full circle back to Kerri’s ass…”
-Levin wraps up Creative Writing class.

“You were wearing the same clothes as the masturbator?!”
-Whitney

“Mercury’s the Sun’s little bitch.”
-Jerrod talks astronomy

“I wish these people had nuts so I could kick them.”
-Sean gets frustrated

“I can only hope my daughter becomes an artist. But, with my luck, she’ll probably end up being a jock or joing the army.”
-Levin

“The only reason I come to this class is to listen to Cody and Natalie talk about Natalie’s balls.”
-Jessie

“You can suck that ‘all right’”
-Levin to Jessie over a critisicm of his favorite book.

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