"I immediately smelled trouble, which always appeals to me." -Sharon Gless (of Queer as Folk)

"I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book." -Groucho Marx

"Far too many people spend their lives reading the menu instead of enjoying the meal." -Sage advice from The Tilt'n Diner in NH

"Men are so fickle. One minute they're spouting sonnets, and the next you're back to being the hired help." -Danielle (Drew Barrymore) in Ever After

"The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference." -Mr. Sterling

Me: "Guess what I get for dinner, num num?" Katie: "Guacamole again?"

"Ears never come off!" The Trunchbull shouted. "They stretch most marvellously, like these are doing now, but I can assure you they never come off!" -The Trunchbull, Matilda by Roald Dahl

"You couldn't be ordinary if you tried." -Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) to Angela Hayes (Mena Suvari) in American Beauty

"Penises are f*cking ugly. That's why I'm into women!" -Ben Winslow

Me: "Dan, you're gonna kill someone!" Dan: "Oh, cool, I've never been on trial for manslaughter before!"

"I dunno, but whatever Mr. Ewing's on, I want some..." -Travis

"...and now, concerning the unexpected rainstorm that they were expecting..." -Mr. Ewing

"...and in completing it, we now have it completed." -Mr. Ewing

"My hangovers are on my calendar planned six months ahead of time." -John Waters

"'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes." -Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

Dr. Kempster (as quoted by Morgan and Jess): "Your homework assignment over the year is to get a clue!"

"I shall be telling this with a sigh/Somewhere ages and ages hence:/Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --/I took the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference." -The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost

"Hi, my name is Morgan, and I have a button fetish!"

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed..." -Mark Twain

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby

"As I was going up the stair/I met a man who wasn't there/He wasn't there again today/I wish, I wish he'd stay away." -The Psychoed, Hughes Mearns

All that we see or seem/Is but a dream within a dream." -A Dream Within A Dream, Edgar Allan Poe

"A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things." -Rear Adm. Grace Hopper

"What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?" -The Captive King, Kahlil Gibran

Ms. Banks: "Would you stop that?!!" Josh: "Stop what?" Ms. Banks: "I don't know...whatever it is you're doing to annoy me."

"He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward." -Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." -Confucius

"A smile of sweetest flowers/wilted so and soured/black tears stain the cheeks/that once were so admired..." -Dave Matthews Band

"LSD melts your mind, not in your hand." -Anonymous

"You're dirty, and that's the kind of dirty you can't wash off!" -Jenny Gratton, as quoted by Morgan

"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving." -Russell Green

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards." -Mark Twain

"True friends stab you in the front." -Oscar Wilde

"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed." -Michael Pritchard

"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals." -Points of View, Agnes Repplier

"As things pass into memory, what was most normal becomes most unique." -RainCoast Chronicles

SYMS orchestra conductor, to violin section while working on the Beethoven Egmont Suite: "I need it...darker, grittier. Play it scrubby!"

Rindy: "I'm gonna wake up at 2 in the morning with a bladder full of juice..." Me: "Aaaugh! Renee! There's a bladder in my bed!"

"My life is a circus/and I am trippin' down the tightrope..." -Papa Roach

Our SYMS floor counselor: "I'm going to the bar now. Someone else will do your bedcheck."

"Oh, you kinky bastard, let go of my eye!" -Rindy/Renee, in a British accent

"Rindy...I have a door hickey!" -me

"Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people." -Broken Vessels, André Dubus

"“Que fais-tu là?” dit-il au buveur, qu’il trouva installé en silence devant une collection de bouteilles vides et une collection de bouteilles pleines. “Je bois,” repondit le buveur, d’un air lugubre. “Pourquoi bois-tu?” lui demanda le petit prince. “Pour oublier,” répondit le buveur." -Le Petit Prince, Antoine de St. Exupéry

"Actually, I have worn Spandex." -Mr. Biron

"Mommy, I'm hungry!" "Shut up, I'm trying to sell you on EBay!" -Jake

"I'm gonna beat her like a rented mule!" -Sean

"Bad karma for you-ou..." -Ms. J.

"You're born, you die, you're born, you die, you're born, you die, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!" -Ms. J., explaining reincarnation to our World Cultures class

"See what a wonderful hero he is? Those heroes are so...heroic!" -Ms. J.

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before." -Mae West

"Poetry just skims the surface of things." -Miss MacDonald

"Imitation is suicide." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My pleasant things in ashes lie/And them behold no more shall I." -Anne Bradstreet, Upon the Burning of our House

"I am glad to the brink of fear." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Watch the stars, and from them learn." -Albert Einstein

"Look, everyone! Now that I'm a teacher, I've sewn patches on my elbows!" -Homer Simpson

"In poetry, sound contributes to sense." -Miss Mac

"J'ai besoin de tes yeux/C'est le miroir ou j'existe sans eux/Je ne me vois pas..." -Celine Dion, Regarde-Moi

To class: "I love you enough for you to hate me." -Miss Mac

"The intellectual part of his nature was already effaced; he had power only to feel, and feeling was torment." -Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

"To be great is to be misunderstood." -RWE

"The foe long since in silence slept: Alike the conqueror silent sleeps: And Time the ruined bridge has swept/Down the dark stream which seaward creeps." -RWE, Concord Hymn

"For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Lives of great men remind us/We can make our lives sublime,/And, departing, leave behind us/Footprints on the sands of time..." -HWL

"It's like opening up a violin and looking for music." -Mr. Emerson in confirmation class

"Today's decisions do not bind tomorrow's hands, but they guide decisions of the future." -Harvey Cox, Harvard theologian

"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it." -Lucy Larcom

"This shaking keeps me steady. I should know./What falls away is always. And is near./I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow./I learn by going where I have to go." -The Waking, Theodore Roethke

"Man, remember, until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in heaven." -Rev. John Hale to John Proctor, The Crucible by Arthur Miller

"The most revolutionary act one can commit in our world is to be happy." -Hunter 'Patch' Adams

"I have spread my dreams under your feet, tread softly because you tread on my dreams." -W.B. Yeats

"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride." -Nursery Rhymes of England, James Halliwell