"Shit!
That word means shit! What shit did you feed my cat?!?"
--Professor
Bullot, French 203
"It's hard for me to lecture about bureaucracy, it's not a very sexy branch of the government."
--Professor Jones, American Politics 104
"I have personally liberated
many a men's restroom."
--Professor Fran Deutsch, Psychology 100
"So I thought, when I got my PhD
-- no, when I got my tenure, that I couldn't be fired. Couldn't be
fired short of great moral turpitude. So I thought, now I won't have
to do a stroke of work. But look--I can't be fired and I still do
a lot of work. Defies rational explanation..."
--Professor
Sam Mitchell, Philosophy 202: The Modern Period
"I don't really know what Egypt is
like today. I'm not an expert on the Middle East."
--Professor Joshua Roth, Intro to Cultural Anthropology
"Suppose you and your boyfriend are locked in a room full
of fine German beer....Might as well keep sucking on your
beer and your boyfriend."
--Professor
Sam Mitchell, Philosophy 202, on the problem of free will - Lockean style
"Do you have something to say, Luke?
Or are you just touching yourself?"
--Professor
Joe Ellis, History 201, embarassing the only male student in the class
"I
mean, he wrote the whole thing on amphetamines...Sartre, drugs, 1800
pages - super!"
--Professor Ann Murphy, Philosophy 351, on the study of Merleau-Ponty
"Yes, and why do you suppose they didn't have talk
shows in the middle ages?"
--Professor Garrett-Goodyear, History
102, Justice: Ideals and Practices throughout History
"Listen to yourself, Paul, one of these days. Of course, if you did that,
then you'd fall asleep, just like all of you...everyday."