Quotes (Page 15)!

  1. '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)
  2. 'Kahn has a mother? I always imagined a pod situation.' ~Dale Gribble
  3. 'Would a lucky day destroy your view of life as a bleak and punishing [Tartarus]?' ~Reggie Kostas
  4. 'You're ordering me not to be awe-struck?' ~Lt. Randy Disher
  5. 'The law doesn't apply to fruit because it's perishable.' ~guy in 'Mr. Monk and the Astronaut'
  6. 'No flash, no flash! Retinal scarring!' ~Adrian Monk
  7. 'In the interest of science ' and shooting stuff ' Adam fires his paper crossbow again.' ~Robert Lee
  8. 'A simple life is all I need ' two shots of fantasy and one of make-believe.' ~'Second Choice,' Clive Gregson
  9. "A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on." ~Bob Scheiffer
  10. 'That...is a panda.' ~Hillary
  11. 'Those stories don't touch my life because I'm not a drunken whore.' ~Hillary
  12. 'That's enough history...time for a gratuitous explosion.' ~Robert Lee
  13. 'A mop of flowing hair and expert tailoring are always a potent combination.' ~Lestat de Lioncourt
  14. 'You cannot make it in this world if you speak to only one gender.' ~Roger Flynn
  15. 'Ah, there is nothing more irritating than the energy of a fledgling vampire.' ~Lestat de Lioncourt
  16. 'Next to a vampire, what in the world is as dangerous to a lone woman as a young human male?' ~Lestat de Lioncourt
  17. '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
  18. '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
  19. 'Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.' ~Lestat de Lioncourt
  20. 'You are the damnest creature! You really are!' ~Memnoch to Lestat de Lioncourt
  21. '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
  22. '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
  23. '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
  24. 'Not authentic, my friend, just beyond present scientific explanation.' ~Random person in Memnoch the Devil
  25. 'Don't start believing it! Not you! No! Don't believe. I refuse to play. I refuse to take either side.' ~Lestat de Lioncourt
  26. 'It's not all lies. Not all of it. That's the age-old dilemma.' ~Maharet
  27. 'What the hell kind of a country is this where I can only hate a man if he's white?' ~Hank Hill
  28. 'One very large corrective bifocal could have changed the fate of Middle Earth' ~MRFH
  29. 'I'm a conniving little monster, and I swear I'm gonna kill me!' ~Link in one of Hail-NekoYasha's comics
  30. 'Is this the movie where he hears people?' ~Hillary during What Women Want
  31. '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
  32. 'People with tanks are never outnumbered.' ~Private Leonard Church
  33. 'Apparently, God hates me.' ~Dr. George O'Malley
  34. '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
  35. '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
  36. 'They should make a Back to the Future II.' ~Hillary
  37. 'Oh, btw, thanks for the Ducky. I didn't choke on him, but I tried really hard.' ~Duckie
  38. 'Watch out! Falling vaginas!' ~Hillary
  39. 'If you break someone's leg, shouldn't you have to be the crutch for a while?' ~Jon Stewart
  40. 'That was my brilliant idea face.' ~Hillary
  41. 'Getting two tickets to an execution is like getting two tickets to NASCAR and knowing Jeff Gordon is going to die.' ~Dept. Travis Junior
  42. 'I'm pretty sure my x-ray machine can take your cell phone in a fight.' ~Dr. Robert Chase
  43. 'Since when do I need a secret passcode to talk to you?' ~Dr. James Wilson
  44. 'Get out of my temporal lobe, House.' ~Dr. Eric Foreman
  45. '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
  46. 'You can't Indian-give a baby.' ~Hillary
  47. 'Excuse me. I need to be where other people are not.' ~Charles from Four Weddings and a Funeral
  48. 'If you had positive feedback in your [cruise control], imagine what would happen...You would CRASH!' ~My Circuits prof
  49. 'Life without silicone was primitive, and when I say 'primitive,' I mean PRIMITIVE. There was nothing to do at home.' ~My Circuits prof
  50. 'Without inductors, your life is useless. You can't go anywhere.' ~My Circuits prof
  51. 'Can I ask you a favour?...Will you allow me to do some proofs now?' ~My Linear Algebra prof
  52. 'This is just to motivate you a little bit, but if you're not motivated, that's okay.' ~My Linear Algebra prof
  53. 'I have the same problem. Especially when I'm grading tests.' ~My Linear Algebra on having difficulty counting
  54. '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
  55. 'So, I hope that was clear.' ~My Sci-Fi prof at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey
  56. '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
  57. 'I just wrote the book. That doesn't make me a privileged interpreter.' ~Samuel R. Delaney
  58. '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
  59. 'You're competing for the readers' disposable funds. Are they going to buy your book or a six-pack?' ~Joe Haldeman
  60. 'He stole their cereal.' ~A guy in my Sci-Fi class theorizing how Alien grew so big in so short a time
  61. '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
  62. 'It's all water mass.' ~A third guy in my Sci-Fi class theorizing how Alien grew so big in so short a time
  63. 'You don't get naked when there's a giant alien hanging around.' ~A guy in my Sci-Fi class
  64. '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
  65. "[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
  66. 'The thing is to make your own imagining real to you.' ~Joe Haldeman on writing
  67. 'Normally, I would use a dot to indicate [a derivative], but...' ~My Intermediate Engineering Analysis prof explaining why he used i'
  68. '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
  69. "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
  70. '[My in-laws] are still in the dark ages. They're not in Canada, but they're close.' ~my Intermediate Engineering Analysis professor
  71. '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
  72. 'You'll find this method useful, and will probably shock the [Tartarus] out of your professor.' ~My Intermediate Engineering Analysis prof
  73. 'How many people like [using this method]? It's okay to be a geek!' ~My Intermediate Engineering Analysis prof
  74. '[This review is] going to give you some idea of what this course was all about.' ~My Intermediate Engineering Analysis prof
  75. '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
  76. 'Think of it like four quizzes. Just...don't have a bad day on final exam day.' ~My Intermediate Engineering Analysis prof
  77. 'The threat of doing that is probably about as good as doing it....You never know. I'm diabolical.' ~My Intermediate Engineering Analysis prof
  78. 'All the grade gets you is your first job.' ~My Intermediate Engineering Analysis prof
  79. '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
  80. '[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
  81. 'A middleman's business is to make himself a necessary evil.' ~William Gibson, Neuromancer
  82. 'Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.' ~William Gibson, Neuromancer
  83. '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
  84. '[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
  85. '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
  86. 'As for 'unusual,' punishment must be unusual or it serves no purpose.' ~Jean V. Dubois
  87. '...the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.' ~Johnny Rico
  88. '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
  89. '...if I left ten 10 per cent of my force at each intersection, mighty soon I would be ten-percented to death.' ~Johnny Rico
  90. '...everything of any importance is founded on mathematics.' ~Johnny Rico
  91. '...what does a man die of but his death?' ~Weaver Odren
  92. '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
  93. 'Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.' ~Genly Ai
  94. 'And there's safety in numbers, eh? Ten are more trustworthy than one.' ~Estraven
  95. 'To oppose something is to maintain it.' ~Estraven
  96. 'How would it ever occur to a sane man that he could fly?' ~Estraven on airplanes and spaceships
  97. '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
  98. '...a brain doesn't have to look like a mushy walnut, and it doesn't have to be in the head.' ~Doc Wilson
  99. '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
  100. '...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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