Quotes (Page 15)!
- 'We're having a party, so they need little hats.' ~my Intermediate Analysis prof, explaining why his variables suddenly had hats (no one else laughed because they were all asleep)
- 'Kahn has a mother? I always imagined a pod situation.' ~Dale Gribble
- 'Would a lucky day destroy your view of life as a bleak and punishing [Tartarus]?' ~Reggie Kostas
- 'You're ordering me not to be awe-struck?' ~Lt. Randy Disher
- 'The law doesn't apply to fruit because it's perishable.' ~guy in 'Mr. Monk and the Astronaut'
- 'No flash, no flash! Retinal scarring!' ~Adrian Monk
- 'In the interest of science ' and shooting stuff ' Adam fires his paper crossbow again.' ~Robert Lee
- 'A simple life is all I need ' two shots of fantasy and one of make-believe.' ~'Second Choice,' Clive Gregson
- "A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on." ~Bob Scheiffer
- 'That...is a panda.' ~Hillary
- 'Those stories don't touch my life because I'm not a drunken whore.' ~Hillary
- 'That's enough history...time for a gratuitous explosion.' ~Robert Lee
- 'A mop of flowing hair and expert tailoring are always a potent combination.' ~Lestat de Lioncourt
- 'You cannot make it in this world if you speak to only one gender.' ~Roger Flynn
- 'Ah, there is nothing more irritating than the energy of a fledgling vampire.' ~Lestat de Lioncourt
- 'Next to a vampire, what in the world is as dangerous to a lone woman as a young human male?' ~Lestat de Lioncourt
- 'For some reason, mortals do that when they want to be sure of us, they fold their fingers inward and they run their knuckles against our faces. Is that a way of touching someone without seeming to be touched oneself? I suppose the palm of the hand, the soft pad of the fingers, is too intimate.' ~Lestat de Lioncourt
- 'I don't like myself, you know. I love myself, of course, I'm committed to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.' ~Lestat de Lioncourt
- 'Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.' ~Lestat de Lioncourt
- 'You are the damnest creature! You really are!' ~Memnoch to Lestat de Lioncourt
- 'Water sings in multiple voices as it slides over rocks and down through tiny gullies and rushes abruptly over rises in the earth so that it may again tumble in a mingling of fugue and canon. While the grass bends its head to watch.' ~Lestat de Lioncourt
- 'Hell would have to be where [people] see the consequences of their actions, but with a full merciful comprehension of how little they themselves knew.' ~Lestat de Lioncourt
- 'I smiled, thinking of how often in our lives David and I had been utterly entangled in the adventure of clothes. But you see, if a vampire leaves out details like clothes, the story doesn't make sense. Even the most grandiose mythic characters'if they are flesh and blood'do have to worry about the latchets on sandals.' ~Lestat de Lioncourt
- 'Not authentic, my friend, just beyond present scientific explanation.' ~Random person in Memnoch the Devil
- 'Don't start believing it! Not you! No! Don't believe. I refuse to play. I refuse to take either side.' ~Lestat de Lioncourt
- 'It's not all lies. Not all of it. That's the age-old dilemma.' ~Maharet
- 'What the hell kind of a country is this where I can only hate a man if he's white?' ~Hank Hill
- 'One very large corrective bifocal could have changed the fate of Middle Earth' ~MRFH
- 'I'm a conniving little monster, and I swear I'm gonna kill me!' ~Link in one of Hail-NekoYasha's comics
- 'Is this the movie where he hears people?' ~Hillary during What Women Want
- 'Uh...I don't know what I can really do to help him. My first-aid procedures aren't very effective after decomposition.' ~Medical Officer DuFresne
- 'People with tanks are never outnumbered.' ~Private Leonard Church
- 'Apparently, God hates me.' ~Dr. George O'Malley
- 'I'm Ed Helms. Rob Corddry couldn't be here tonight because...he drowned. On the plus side, he's not a witch.' ~Ed Helms
- 'Ha ha, it's Mr. Keech who's reading [my scholarship application]. I'll live. He won't mind the hanging preposition that is going to keep me up tonight.' ~Duckie
- 'They should make a Back to the Future II.' ~Hillary
- 'Oh, btw, thanks for the Ducky. I didn't choke on him, but I tried really hard.' ~Duckie
- 'Watch out! Falling vaginas!' ~Hillary
- 'If you break someone's leg, shouldn't you have to be the crutch for a while?' ~Jon Stewart
- 'That was my brilliant idea face.' ~Hillary
- 'Getting two tickets to an execution is like getting two tickets to NASCAR and knowing Jeff Gordon is going to die.' ~Dept. Travis Junior
- 'I'm pretty sure my x-ray machine can take your cell phone in a fight.' ~Dr. Robert Chase
- 'Since when do I need a secret passcode to talk to you?' ~Dr. James Wilson
- 'Get out of my temporal lobe, House.' ~Dr. Eric Foreman
- 'If I had a nickel for every time I got in a fist fight during a chickflick...' ~Thayer from How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
- 'You can't Indian-give a baby.' ~Hillary
- 'Excuse me. I need to be where other people are not.' ~Charles from Four Weddings and a Funeral
- 'If you had positive feedback in your [cruise control], imagine what would happen...You would CRASH!' ~My Circuits prof
- 'Life without silicone was primitive, and when I say 'primitive,' I mean PRIMITIVE. There was nothing to do at home.' ~My Circuits prof
- 'Without inductors, your life is useless. You can't go anywhere.' ~My Circuits prof
- 'Can I ask you a favour?...Will you allow me to do some proofs now?' ~My Linear Algebra prof
- 'This is just to motivate you a little bit, but if you're not motivated, that's okay.' ~My Linear Algebra prof
- 'I have the same problem. Especially when I'm grading tests.' ~My Linear Algebra on having difficulty counting
- 'What do you do? Do you tell your boss to go jump in a lake? That's probably what you morally should do.' ~My Ethics prof
- 'So, I hope that was clear.' ~My Sci-Fi prof at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 'It you're going to make a movie where you are going to kill off most of the characters, you don't want them to be sympathetic.' ~My Sci-Fi prof on Alien
- 'I just wrote the book. That doesn't make me a privileged interpreter.' ~Samuel R. Delaney
- 'I hope [gender relations in 50 or 100 years] are much better...assuming we haven't blown ourselves up by then.' ~My Sci-Fi prof
- 'You're competing for the readers' disposable funds. Are they going to buy your book or a six-pack?' ~Joe Haldeman
- 'He stole their cereal.' ~A guy in my Sci-Fi class theorizing how Alien grew so big in so short a time
- 'Maybe he feeds on the stuff in their ventilation ducts.' ~Another guy in my Sci-Fi class theorizing how Alien grew so big in so short a time
- 'It's all water mass.' ~A third guy in my Sci-Fi class theorizing how Alien grew so big in so short a time
- 'You don't get naked when there's a giant alien hanging around.' ~A guy in my Sci-Fi class
- 'He barely ate those last two people. He was full.' ~A fourth guy in my Sci-Fi class pondering what the heck was up with Alien's growth spurt
- "[Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was....He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me." ~Joe Haldeman
- 'The thing is to make your own imagining real to you.' ~Joe Haldeman on writing
- 'Normally, I would use a dot to indicate [a derivative], but...' ~My Intermediate Engineering Analysis prof explaining why he used i'
- 'When all you have is a hammer, everything is going to look like a nail. Even if it's a screw, you're gonna [spastic twitch] hit it with a hammer.' ~My Intermediate Engineering Analysis prof
- "Don't think of this course as some elaborate hazing process before you can become an engineer. Hazing is illegal at the University of Florida." ~my Intermediate Engineering Analysis professor
- '[My in-laws] are still in the dark ages. They're not in Canada, but they're close.' ~my Intermediate Engineering Analysis professor
- 'Ever wonder why you never saw a transform function for inverse Laplace? No? You never wondered? 'No! My brain will explode if I think about that!'' ~My Intermediate Engineering Analysis prof
- 'You'll find this method useful, and will probably shock the [Tartarus] out of your professor.' ~My Intermediate Engineering Analysis prof
- 'How many people like [using this method]? It's okay to be a geek!' ~My Intermediate Engineering Analysis prof
- '[This review is] going to give you some idea of what this course was all about.' ~My Intermediate Engineering Analysis prof
- 'I'm using a fourth order polynomial to approximate a fourth order polynomial. It better give me a really good approximation.' ~My Intermediate Engineering Analysis prof
- 'Think of it like four quizzes. Just...don't have a bad day on final exam day.' ~My Intermediate Engineering Analysis prof
- 'The threat of doing that is probably about as good as doing it....You never know. I'm diabolical.' ~My Intermediate Engineering Analysis prof
- 'All the grade gets you is your first job.' ~My Intermediate Engineering Analysis prof
- 'If you haven't noticed, I haven't given you any useful information. There's four questions.' ~My Intermediate Engineering Analysis prof at the end of our review session
- '[Paul] realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future.' ~Frank Herbert, Dune
- 'A middleman's business is to make himself a necessary evil.' ~William Gibson, Neuromancer
- 'Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.' ~William Gibson, Neuromancer
- 'Basic truths cannot change and once a man of insight expresses one of them it is never necessary, no matter how much the times change, to reformulate them.' ~Jean V. Dubois
- '[Bag]pipes can seem very odd when you first hear them, and a tyro practicing can set your teeth on edge'it sounds and looks as if he had a cat under his arm, its tail in his mouth, and biting it. But they grow on you. The first time our pipers kicked their heels out in front of the band, skirling away at 'Alamein Dead,' my hair stood up so straight it lifted my cap. It gets you'makes tears.' ~Johnny Rico
- 'Maybe someday they'll get everything nice and tidy and we'll have that thing we sing about, when 'we ain't a-gonna study war no more.' Maybe. Maybe the same day the leopard will take off his spots and get a job as a Jersey cow, too.' ~Johnny Rico
- 'As for 'unusual,' punishment must be unusual or it serves no purpose.' ~Jean V. Dubois
- '...the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.' ~Johnny Rico
- 'If a rocket fails to find its target, it has a nasty habit of continuing to search until it finds one...and it cannot tell a friend from a foe; a brain that can be stuffed into a small rocket is fairly stupid.' ~Johnny Rico
- '...if I left ten 10 per cent of my force at each intersection, mighty soon I would be ten-percented to death.' ~Johnny Rico
- '...everything of any importance is founded on mathematics.' ~Johnny Rico
- '...what does a man die of but his death?' ~Weaver Odren
- 'The unknown, the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion....But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion....There's really only one question that can be answered, Genry, and we already know the answer....The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.' ~Faxe
- 'Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.' ~Genly Ai
- 'And there's safety in numbers, eh? Ten are more trustworthy than one.' ~Estraven
- 'To oppose something is to maintain it.' ~Estraven
- 'How would it ever occur to a sane man that he could fly?' ~Estraven on airplanes and spaceships
- 'So here we were, fifty men and fifty women, with IQs over 150 and bodies of unusual health and strength, slogging elitely through the mud and slush of central Missouri, reflecting on the usefulness of our skill in building bridges on worlds where the only fluid is an occasional standing pool of liquid helium.' ~William Mandella
- '...a brain doesn't have to look like a mushy walnut, and it doesn't have to be in the head.' ~Doc Wilson
- 'Doctors don't seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.' ~William Mandella
- '...that's what always got me about physics, they make a big to-do about obvious things, and when it gets to the rough parts'' ~Doc Wilson
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