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Look, 'love and how to stay in love forever' *holds up a cosmo* This might have something interesting
Professor Lewis, English lit 203
NIC, Pa, British Columbia

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: November 1, 2004

e had just spent over an hour discussing Antony and Cleopatra
Rating: 10

All that glitters is not gold but must have free electrons. Studying pasta can teach you a lot about macromolecular chemistry.
Dr Sadoway, 3.091- Intro to Solid State Chemistry
MIT, Cambridge, MA

Comments? Add or View (1) submitted: November 2, 2004

I don't remember his exact words, but this is the gist of it.
Rating: 8

"Well, I've got one election tip for you: the results will be exactly the same whether you stay up all night listening to it or not. I suggest getting some sleep."
Larry Dunning, Introduction to Unix
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: November 2, 2004

Said at the beginning of class on Nov 1, 2004
Rating: 7

Let's all split up into small groups and work on the homework that's due next time. [blank stares from the class] "Let's all" means "do it!"
Laura Kettner, TA, Math 155, Precalc
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: November 3, 2004
Rating: unrated

Calling an engineer an applied scientist is like calling an artistic painter an applied pigment chemist.
Prof. DeLaurier, Calculus for Engineers
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

Comments? Add or View (1) submitted: November 3, 2004
Rating: unrated

You're all Americans...by definition, that mean's you're all isolationists. Because of this, some of you may know that Switzerland is in Europe. What all of you don't know is that it's landlocked.
Dr. CE Price, ENSC 3133 (Material Science)
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

Comments? Add or View (1) submitted: November 5, 2004

Picture an elderly British gentleman teaching material science and talking about the America's Cup and its relation to the carbon fiber composites you're discussing....
Rating: unrated

Many of you may recollect what the answer is because we discussed it in Period 1. However, there are some people in this class that require me to teach more slowly...Jennifer, are you still hung over from last night? No Good then, you're not one of those slower people. Moving on...
Dr. CE Price, ENSC 3133 (Material Science)
Oklahoma State University, ,

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: November 5, 2004

A classic Price-ism
Rating: unrated

Scientists never make mistrakes.
Dr. Neil Purdie, Chemistry for Engineers
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: November 6, 2004

Dr. Purdie is an absolute master of deadpan comedy. Being Scottish only helps.
Rating: 10

I didn't choose my sexual preference. I discovered it. In the back of a Dodge.
Michael Hiltbrunner, Intro to Philosophy
Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: November 6, 2004
Rating: 10

"No I didn't turn the lights on! I was HUNTING!!"
Marla Buckmaster, Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Northern Michigan University (NMU), Marqutte, Michigan

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: November 11, 2004

When asked if she had turn the lights on while tracking down the burglar in her house. The 'burglar' turned out to be a guy employed by the contractor working on her house. The full story preceding this quote: She woke up to the sounds of someone else in her house, so she grabbed her mace and lead-filled pipe and went downstairs and found the guy, and when she did, she maced him 'til he couldn't breathe, beat him with the pipe, and dragged him outside. She then felt sorry for him so she took him to the hospital and allowed him to come back to work at her house...
Rating: 10

"Leave me alone! I hate you all! I'm never spelling anything again!!"
Mr. Brown, Drama
Denmark High School, Denmark, Wisconsin

Comments? Add or View (1) submitted: November 11, 2004

He's an english teacher
Rating: 7

"Yay for typos!!"
Mr. Brown, Drama
Denmark High School, Denmark, Wisconsin

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: November 11, 2004

Same english teacher
Rating: unrated

"You've got to pump before you can score, and that feels really good!"
Mr. Nejedlo, Chemistry
Denmark High School, Denmark, Wisconsin

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: November 11, 2004

It was actually about a game with electrons, but no one in the class thought of it that way...
Rating: 9

"Oh look, I'm excited!! Hold on Mike, I'll be right back!"
Mr. Nejedlo, Chemistry
Denmark High School, Denmark, Wisconsin

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: November 11, 2004

He was talking about electrons when Mike raised his hand, but the two statements were said faarrr too close together
Rating: 10

"Am I white trash or a Jewish princess?"
Dr. Linda Steiner, Psychology
UW-Green Bay, Green Bay, Wisconsin

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: November 11, 2004
Rating: 1

"The monkey god is in control!"
Mr. Webb, Japanese
Denmark High School, Denmark, Wisconsin

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: November 11, 2004
Rating: 7

"Once that diaper comes off, that child is like, 'Whoa! New territory!!'"
Dr. Linda Steiner, Psychology
UW-Green Bay, Green Bay, Wisconsin

Comments? Add or View (1) submitted: November 11, 2004
Rating: 9.5

"I mean, I would probably be looking at a male three-year-old and going, 'What's that dangling off you?!'"
Dr. Linda Steiner, Psychology
UW-Green Bay, Green Bay, Wisconsin

Comments? Add or View (1) submitted: November 11, 2004

About the 'Electra Complex' (a.k.a. Penis Envy) and what she'd say if she were a little girl
Rating: 10

"Now you do all know that South Africa is a country? Not like the south in the US..."
Mr. Brown, College Prep English
Denmark High School, Denmark, Wisconsin

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: November 11, 2004

Mr. Brown, to a class of high school seniors
Rating: unrated

I don't need to listen to you. There is no ``you'' -- there is just a bunch of packets.
Dr. Hamdy Soliman,
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico

Comments? Add or View (1) submitted: November 12, 2004

This came up in Grad Level Networks, while talking about connection oriented getting better service than connectionless communications.
Rating: 9.33333

[After spending 10 minutes to derive an equation] And this is what I like to call Maxwell's completely useless equation. No, really, I can't think of a single situation for which this equation is really useful.
Gregory D Earle, Electricity and Magnetism
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas

Comments? Add or View (1) submitted: November 12, 2004

About the closed integral of B*dA=0 (Magnetic flux in a enclosed region is always 0--> no magnetic monopoles)
Rating: 9.33333

Unless your a professional like myself, don't mix alcohol and guns.
John Lukowski, Electrical Machines
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan

Comments? Add or View (2) submitted: November 13, 2004

This was said while talking about ways to stay warm during the "most sacred" holiday known to man.
Rating: 10

You'll just have to sit down with a cup of coffee, a glass of beer or wine or a joint or whatever and read it.
Dr. Barry Pegg, British Lit.
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: November 13, 2004

Regarding reading "The Rape of the Lock" because most of the class had not read the assigned reading.
Rating: unrated

Where does fertilization happen? -No, I'm not talking about the backseat of a car.
Dr. Barkalow, Bio 101
Stetson University, DeLand, FL

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: November 13, 2004
Rating: 7.5

"Terrifying" might be my top-of-the-list adjective for flying Aeroflot. There was a chicken running around the cabin.
Dr. Denner, Russian 201
Stetson University, DeLand, FL

Comments? Add or View (0) submitted: November 13, 2004

Aeroflot is the Russian national airline, and has quite the reputation among seasoned travellers.
Rating: 8

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