Browse Professor Quotes

Do you happen to have a stomach pump with you?
—a diner at McDonald's
WET PAINT (this is not an instruction)
—a note on a subway wall
Yeah, seven is about as old as I want them. Because when they get to
second grade, they start adding all sorts of body parts that I don't
want them to have yet.
—Karen, talking about children's drawings. Really.
Is there a major gas leak in here? If this place blows up in a few minutes,
I called it.
—Matthew
If you find a perfect church, don't go. You'll mess it up.
—Rick Walker
If you find a perfect church, don't go. You'll mess it up.
—Rick Walker
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital dying of nothing.

—Redd Fox
Y' know, youre really not as tough as you think you are... OWWWW!!! That really hurt!
—The words of a stupid guy I know, right before he fell to the floor crying.
I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK
—Inscription on a tombstone seen in Ashland, New Hampshire:
Some people say I must be a horrible person. That's not true. I have the heart of a young boy. On my desk.

—Stephen King
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

—Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love" by Robert Heinlein
Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.

—Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love" by Robert Heinlein
I love deadlines, especially the whooshing sound they make as they go by.
—Douglas Adams
There are no stupid questions, only stupid inspirational statements
—Heidi Dixon
If necessity is the mother of invention, then laziness must be the father.

—Troy D. Bryan
I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

—Jules Feiffer
Please don't throw cigarette butts on the floor, the cockroaches are getting cancer.

—Bathroom graffiti
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
—Sydney Smith
Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.
—Stewart E. White
The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
—William Clayton
Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.
—Neil Kendall
Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.
—James Leo Herlihy
They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.
—Nathaniel Lee on being consigned to a mental institution, circa 17th c.
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
—Robert X. Cringely, "InfoWorld"
I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl.
—Penny Ward Moser
Happy birthday! We're such good friends, we're just like Thelma and Thelma. (Let's face it. Louise was kind of an airhead.)
—rejected Hallmark card
Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit.
—John S. Nichols
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another until he finds his own.
—Logan Pearsall Smith
Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God....I could be eating a slow learner.
—Lynda Montgomery
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
—Aaron Machado
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
—Albert Einstein
Adults always ask kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for *ideas*.
—Paula Poundstone
At Xmas, I like to send a special wish to special friends. You, however, just get a card.
—rejected Hallmark card
Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
—Dave Barry
It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.
—Dave Barry
No one gets into heaven without a glowstick!

—Homer Simpson
Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help
—Calvin, as in "and Hobbes"
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.

—unknown
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

—Johnny Carson
Those who say that words can never hurt them, never got hit in the head with a dictionary.
—unknown
All I want is a kind word, a warm bed and unlimited power.

—unknown
Play Strip Risk. It is the only game in which you can say, I've conquered Algeria, now give me your pants!

—Mike Ludders
I've learned not to put things in my mouth that are bad for me.

—Monica Lewinsky (on CNN's Larry King Live discussing her weight-loss
The most beautiful flower in the world will kill you if you snort the petals up your nose.
—Wayne Allred
Politicians prefer unarmed peasants
—Bumper sticker
Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip a man's heart out through his wallet.

—Robin Williams
I wouldn't reccommend sex, drugs, and insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

—Hunter S. Thompson
life, n.: A whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.

—Dont even ask...
Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things.
—George Carlin
People who are always looking over their shoulder, will most likely run into something.
—Charles Huffine
Just because you're stupid doesn't mean I'm lying
—Rev. Dr. Bill Levering
What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick.
—Rick N.
If you can read this, then you're close enough that I can slam on my brakes and sue you for all you're worth.

—Bumper Sticker
Life is like a game of cards. If you don't have a partner, you better have a good hand.
—Someones girlfriend
When people say I'm gonna kick your ass!, they never kick your ass, they punch you in the face.

—Anon.
Can I buy you a drink, or should I just give you the money?

—Failed pick-up line
Don't judge a man by his boxers, it's what's inside that counts.
—Diana
God gave men a brain and a penis and only enough blood to work one at a time
—Anon.
The moon can't fall down because it is in orbit. An orbit is the interaction of a combination of forces - such as gravity, inertia, centrifugal force and others - that result in a perfect balance. Nevertheless, it is a good idea to stay indoors as much as possible

—Science made stupid
If Darwin's theory of evolution was correct, cats would be able to operate a can opener by now.

—Larry Wright
It's me and you against the world. So when do we attack?

—graffiti
We pray for MacArthur's erection.

—Sign erected by Japanese citizens in Tokyo, when MacArthur was considering a run for President
Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.
—Jerry Seinfeld
We anticipate a global world-maket with place for perhaps five computers.
—Tom Watson, IBM 1949
Guitar-groups have no future.
—EMI-manager for Beatles 1962
If Darwin's theory of evolution was correct, cats would be able to operate a can opener by now.
—Larry Wright
Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave.
—Ad slogan "Pepsi Comes Alive" as originally translated into Chinese
Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
—Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science in 1949
Be careful -- Your family's future is in your hands.

—Toilet graffiti
For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan. We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex... uh... setbacks.
—George Bush speech
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
—Western Union internal memo, 1876
With a rubber duck, one's never alone.
—Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
If you can read this you're not aiming in the right direction.
—Toilet-ceiling graffiti
Retraction: The 'Greek Special' is a huge 18 inch pizza and not a huge 18 inch penis, as described in an add. Blondie's Pizza would like to apologize for any confusion Friday's ad may have caused.
—Correction printed in The Daily Californian
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?
—David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting

—Marvin's first ever compliment about anybody, in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Don't hate yourself in the morning - sleep till noon.
—Graffiti
We pray for MacArthur's erection.

—Sign erected by Japanese citizens in Tokyo, when MacArthur was considering a run for President
Flying is simple. You just throw yourself at the ground and miss.

—Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for the Fish
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.


—English Professor, Ohio University
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.



—Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio
It is now beyond any doubt that cigarettes are the biggest cause of statistics.

—Unknown
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today?
- Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
- Advising the President.
- Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin.
—David Letterman
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

—Dr. Karl Menninger
Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
—Stupidest question of the month www.stupidquest.com
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
—William James
It is not possible to ski thru a revolving door.
—Unknown
You don't buy the drink here, you only rent it
—Toilet graffiti
The sooner all the animals are extinct, the sooner we'll find their money.
—Mikael Pawlo
An Animated Cartoon Theology:


People are animals.
The body is mortal and subject to incredible pain.
Life is antagonistic to the living.
The flesh can be sawed, crushed, frozen, stretched, burned, bombed, and plucked for music.
The dumb are abused by the smart and the smart destroyed by their own cunning.
The small are tortured by the large and the large destroyed by their own momentum.
We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.
—E. L. Doctorow "The Book of Daniel"
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
—Dick Cavett mocking the TV-violence debate.
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
—A. Whitney Brown
The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the Four F's:

fighting;
fleeing;
feeding; and
mating.
—Psychology professor in neuropsychology intro course; obviously not from our school
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.


—La Bruyere
Things are more like they are now that they have ever been.
—President Gerald Ford
China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.



—Charles de Gaulle
I think we're on the road to coming up with answers that I don't think any of us in total feel we have the answers to.
—Kim Anderson, mayor of Naples, Florida
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.

—Louis Nel, former Deputy Minister of Information for South Africa
It takes a genius to whine appealingly.


—F. Scott Fitzgerald

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