These are mostly, vaguely ordered. :-) Have fun!

• Music
• Dreams and Imagination
• Love
• Everything Else....
• The things Swatties say....

  Kyla's quote page (with much Buffy :-)
  Another good page

• Without music, life would be an error. -- Nietzsche

• Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
  And all of heaven we have below. -- John Addison, "Song for St. Cecilia's Day"

• La musique me prend comme une mer! -- Baudelaire

• Music is like making love: either all or nothing. -- Isaac Stern

• Fiddle hickies?
  I view them the same as I viewed the other kind when I was a teenager. Back then, it was a badge of honor to show you had been with your puppy love.
  Now, a fiddle hickey shows the world that I have been with my four-stringed mistress. And my wife isn't even jealous. -- Mike Jarboe

• We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency. -- Mark Twain

• Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. -- Laurie Anderson

• To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. -- Aaron Copland

• If you can talk, you can sing
  If you can walk, you can dance. -- African proverb

• When I was young you never heard anything about Celtic music.... But now there's money to it and they call it Celtic. It's bloody ridiculous, to tell you the truth. -- Norman Kennedy, Scotch folk singer

• He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue. -- Jonathon Swift

• Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale men's souls from their bodies? -- Benedick, "Much Ado About Nothing"

• Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein

• Imagination is the eye of the soul. -- Joseph Joubert

• One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled. -- Charles deLint, Memory and Dream

• An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours. -- Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy

• Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? -- Leonardo da Vinci

• Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. -- William Dement

• Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the immanent Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos. -- Gorden Globus

• All that we see or seem
  Is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allen Poe, "A Dream Within a Dream"

• To surrender dreams, this may be madness. -- "Man of La Mancha"

• A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects the all too angular contours of pure thought, fills up the gaps and intervals here and there, binds them together, and dulls the sharp corners of ideas. But too much reverie submerges and drowns. -- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

• Man lives by imagination. -- Havelock Ellis

• There is a dream dreaming us. -- A Kalahari Bushman, as quoted by Joseph Campbell

• That fairy kind of writing which depends only upon the force of imagination. -- John Dryden, King Arthur, dedication

• Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams,
  Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. -- W.B. Yeats

• Those who compared our life to a dream were right.... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

• What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

• "How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet.
  "Sometimes it's much simpler than seeing things that are," Alec said. "For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones." -- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

• Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. -- John Gardner, Grendel

• Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame. -- Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

• Le coeur a ses raison que la raison ne connait pas. -- Blaise Pascal

• Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. -- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

• Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. -- Albert Camus, The Plague

• "Love" is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. -- Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

• That best portion of a good man's life,
  His little, nameless, unremembered acts
  Of kindness and of love. -- William Wordsworth

• If thou must love me, let it be for naught
  Except for love's sake only. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Excellant wretch! Perdition catch my soul
  But I do love thee! And when I love thee not,
  Chaos is come again. -- Shakespeare, Othello, III, iii, 90-92

• And love's the noblest fraility of the mind. -- John Dryden

• Love is a game of Calvinball. -- Alan Jaffray

• I had that sense of recognition . . . here was something which I had known all my life, only I didn't know it . . . . -- Ralph Vaughan Williams

• Close your eyes, for your eyes will only tell the truth and the truth 0isn't what you want to see. . . . In the dark it is easy to pretend that the truth is what it ought to be. -- The Phantom of the Opera

• The trouble with the future is that it keeps becoming the present. -- "Calvin and Hobbes"

• "Will you write the story?"
  "If there is one."
  "Happy ending or no?" He was serious.
  She attempted a smile. "Fairy tales always have a happy ending."
  He leaned back in his chair. "That depends."
  "On what?"
  "On whether you are Rumplestiltskin or the Queen." -- Jane Yolen, Briar Rose

• Every piece of writing . . . starts from what I call a grit . . . a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away . . . but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind. -- Rumer Godden

• Why be normal? -- Bumper sticker

• I'd rather be reading! -- Bumper sticker

• Do not think you are on the right road just because it is a well-beaten path. -- Unknown

• We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

• . . . [she] lifted her chin up a couple of notches. I saw the little creases in the flesh of her neck, just the tiniest little creases, and little mark left day by day by the absolutely infinitesimal gossamer cord of thugee which time throws around the pretties neck every day to garrote it. The cord is so gossamer that it breaks every day, but the marks get there finally, and finally one day the gossamer cord doesn't break and it is enough. -- Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

• God creates dinosaurs; God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man; Man destroys God. Man creates dinosuars. . . . -- Jurassic Park

• ...society is guilty in not providing universal free education, and it must anser for the night it produces. If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who has caused the darkness. -- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

• Wisdom is a sacred communion. -- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

• A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. -- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

• To think of shadows is a serious thing. -- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

• Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? -- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

• To love beauty is to see light. -- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

• Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. -- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

• Shape is not man. Man is grokking.... Yet the boy was right; shape was irrelevant in defining "Man," as unimportant as the bottle containing the wine. -- Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

• Only the shallow know themselves. -- Oscar Wilde

• To be great is to be misunderstood. -- Ralp Waldo Emerson

• Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer. -- Voltaire

• Tempus edax rerum. -- Ovid

• Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. -- Kurt Vonnegut

• Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist. -- Ned Rorem

• Architecture in general is frozen music. -- Nietzsche

• It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy.... Let's go exploring! -- "Calvin and Hobbes," 1 January 1998

• The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. -- Unknown

• I sound my barbaric YAWP over the rooftops of the world. Walt Whitman

• L'Enfer -- c'est les autres. -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Huis Clos"

• Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. -- Albert Camus, The Plague

• Life is predictably unpredictable. -- Unknown

• Man, a social animal, could not avoid government any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." -- Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

• Memory could be poked with a stick, savored in the mouth like a popsicle; you could never get enough of it. Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

• What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. -- Ludwig van Beethoven

• We live with our archtypes, but can we live in them? -- Poul Anderson, "Queen of Air and Darkness"

• "...Are they [humans] angels, even plucked ones?"
  The old crow, who had a liking for metaphysics, propped one eyelid open and said, "Any sensible creature would vall them devils. Puffballs fo vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons, and too stubborn to open the door and escape." -- Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

• Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism," from Existentialism and Human Emotions

• ...the hero makes himself heroic. There's always a possibility for the coward not to be cowardly any more and for the hero to stop be being heroic. -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism," from Existentialism and Human Emotions

• Outside of a dog, a book is your best friend. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx

• Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. -- Victor Hugo, Notre Dame de Paris

• Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg.
  The book will kill the edifice. -- Victor Hugo, Notre Dame de Paris

• There is no sin except stupidity. -- Oscar Wilde

• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -- Oscar Wilde

• Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. -- Oscar Wilde

• Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road,
  Healthy, free, the world before me,
  The long brown path before me
  leading wherever I choose. -- Walt Whitman

• What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all. -- Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

• It wasn't a matter of courage or dreams, but something a whole lot simpler. A pilot would call it ground orientation. I'd spent a long time circling above the clouds, looking for life, while Hallie was living it. -- Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

• The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go.... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else. -- Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

• The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships. -- Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

• She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feelling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awakening from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams. -- Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

• Occasionally Christians will berate me for my heretical beliefs. They'll tell me all these spooky stories...or sometimes...fanciful tales about what happens after you die. Then they'll say:
  "How do I know that this is true? Because I read it in the Bible."
  This is hard logic to argue with. After all, I know the Man in the Yellow Hat was good friends with a mischievous little monkey, because I read it vin Curious George. -- Scott Glazer

• Other monsters crowded around me,
  Continually attacking. I treated them politely,
  Offereing the edge of my razor-sharp sword.
  But the feast, I think, did not please them.... -- Beowulf, ll 559-562

• Je plie, et ne romps pas. -- La Fontaine, "Le Chaine et le Roseau"

• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. -- Victor Hugo

• A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. -- Chinese proverb

• Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. -- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

• Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. -- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

• A room without books is like a body without a soul. -- Cicero

• Homo bulla. -- Medieval adage

• If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. -- Woodrow Wilson

• Anything that's mended is but patched; virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue. -- Fool, Twelfth Night, I, v

• The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. -- Muriel Rukiysen, American poet

• Women's virtue is man's greatest invention. -- Cornelia Otis Skinner

• Noble deeds and hots baths are the best cures for depression. -- Dodie Smith

• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. -- Gilbert Highet

• I hate
  this wretched willow soul of mine,
  patiently enduring, plaited or twisted
  by other hands. -- Karin Boye, Swedish poet

• It was so cold I almost got married. -- Shelley Winters, American actress

• Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. -- John Gardner, Grendel

• Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman. . . . You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings. -- Andreas Capellanus, 12th century The Art of Courtly Love

• If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend. -- Andreas Capellanus, 12th century The Art of Courtly Love

• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

• [The prince] thought to himself, Something must have happened to my wife! and hurried to win the war so he could go home. -- "The Dragon and the Enchanted Filly" from Italian Folktales

• The longest word in the English language...begins methianylglutaminyl and finishes 1,913 letters later as alynalalanylthreonilarginylserase. I don't know what it is used for, though I daresay it would take some rubbing to get it out of the carpet. -- Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue

• Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's birth. Had he not done so, the Bard of Avon would instead be known as the rather less ringing Bard of Snitterfield. --Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue

• Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public. --Winston Churchill

• [In Uzbeckistan]local drivers are not familiar with safe driving techniques. --U.S. Department of State consular Information Sheet, Uzbekistan

• ...a law of Henry VIII (1531) punished poisoners by boiling them alive, as we gentler souls do with shellfish. -- Will Durant, The Reformation

• Drunkeness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold. -- Will Durant, The Reformation

• To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself. -- Dacia Maraini, The Silent Duchess

• Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria! -- Calvin (Bill Watterson)

• Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets. -- Eddy Peters

• Personally, I've been advertising myself as Guaranteed Year 1900 Compatible - you can shut down whatever you want at midnight, but I'll still be right here cranking up the Victrola to play "Auld Lang Syne." -- David Sanderson

• I never could diagram a sentence and I always thought there was something fundamentally wrong with the concept of a dictionary - I hadta know how to spell a word so I could look it up to see how to spell it. Perhaps that's why I like the fiddle - without frets I can play fast-and-loose the notes. Applying the same concept to English appears misguided....does that mean English is a fretted language? -- Warren Armstrong

• Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. -- Theodore Roosevelt

• It's usually a little easier (for once) to interpret cats' reactions [to fiddling]; some just sit and purr, others stalk off but very few try to join in the music. Of course, the enigmatic ones who start to play with your bow-arm require a little deeper interpretive analysis. -- Tom Paley

• If by the expression "not practical" you mean "not easy," you are right. Definitely it is not easy. Yet it should be tried. You may say it is risky trying it. Surely it cannot be more risky than trying a nuclear war. Walopa Rahula, Buddhist monk, on Buddhist teachings

• The speech released by a wise man is full of feeling expressing his true thought. Clumsy people whose language consists only in opening their mouths are not wise people. -- H. Saddhatissa, Buddhist Ethics

• But such fine words butter no parsnips. -- Robert Aitken, The Mind of Clover

• There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer

• Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. -- Dave Barry

• There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. -- Maya Angelou

• All the world is queer save me and thee; and sometimes I think thee a little queer. -- Quaker saying

• It turned out to be mandatory spouse night, so I went to see Crouching Terrier, Hidden Dachshund with Line. It was almost as fun as dancing. Terry Harvey, on why he wasn't at a dance.

• I write poetry that I describe as, "open chest, remove heart, place on page. Scrub violently." -- Alastair Thompson '99

• Men are like fudge: sweet, dense, and rarely good for you. -- Audrey Walton-Hadlock '99

• You have a lot of karmic fruit coming your way. -- Scott Price '00

• Oh, is that how the hierarchy of acension goes? Freshman, sophomore, junior, Joe, God? -- random person in the shuttle

• Nerds Descending a Staircase. -- Amy Swift '00

• I have the attention span of a turnip. -- chaos golubitsky '00

• I hope the golf cart never comes for me. -- Sam Picard '01, on the ulterior motives of the golf carts that drive around campus

• You are so five minutes ago! -- Melissa Binde '98

• I don't have any work, and I don't want to do it. -- Jennifer Tyson '01

• Scott Timm: There are bad Catholics?
  Will Untereker: Yes, it's called Villanova.

• Michael Marissen, music prof: I know this guy who could improvise on anything. You could give him the Swarthmore College ... ummm ... does the football team have a song?
  Eric hums "Taps."

• I hope you find this very rewarding, or at least I'll insist you do. -- Michael Marissen, music prof, on dissecting a Haydn symphony

• And so you see here Mozart could have just used his metaphorical Macintosh to cut and paste this whole section.... -- Michael Marissen, on the relation between the exposition and recapitulation of Piano Sonata No. 22 in E flat

• He was a really wild guy: long, greasy hair; leather jacket; played the tuba.... -- Michael Marissen

• Joe: If I'm not here, where am I?
  Kyla and Chaos: You're a figment of your own imagination.
  Joe: Shit.

• I'm not good with nouns. -- chaos golubitsky '00

• Folk music can't be played by a man in a tuxedo. -- Amy Swift '00

• Basically, 3 is lots of animals, 2 is one animal, and 1 is little bits of animals. -- chaos golubitsky '00, explaining the divisions of biology

• Okay, you guys can't squi--AAAAGGH. -- Kyla Tornheim '01, telling us we weren't capable of squishing her

• You still smell like you, only fruity. -- Kyla Tornheim '01, on the merits of Bath & Body Works Body Splash

• Sex is great; it's stupidity I hate. -- Amy Swift, '00

• You know, high schoolers are awfully weird. I was subbing in an algebra II class, which is mostly seniors, and this one guy comes up to me and says, I got to go to the bathroom right away or else my balls are going to burst. So, being Julie, I responded, that's interesting since urine doesn't pass through the balls; you can wait for someone to return. Hee hee hee... power trip. -- Julie Kennedy '00

• Now that I've proved my femininity... Robert McFarland '02

• Fuck, I got crumbs down my cleavage. -- Kira Goetchius '00

• "Lindsay, you're making Robert cut his heart out with a spoon!"
  Lindsay: "Oh, cool!"

• You don't usually see mathmeticians running around DuPont yelling, "We figured it out! Get the oxen!" -- Eric Jensen, Astro prof, comparing our modern age with the Greeks

• Some affixes are wildly promiscious. -- Donna Jo Napoli, linguistics prof

• Don't want tea; have to read about gods. -- Kyla Tornheim '01

• I really don't want to find my soulmate/life partner now. It would be incredibly inconvenient. -- Xanthi Carras '01

• Craig's Little Lessons for Life, or Chicken Soup for the Medieval Soul. -- Heather Weidner '00, on English Professor Craig Williamson's sermonizing

• Sanskrit, of course, is the most studly way to listen to the news. -- Tom Kornack '98, on listening to the news in Nepal

• Rats are the ultimate cuteness accessory. -- Kyla Tornheim '01

• It's just called the unusual past. -- Donna Jo Napoli, linguistics professor, on the past tense marker in Tulu, a language in southern India

• Just put them on the floor and get in bed with me. -- Anna Hess '00

• As my mother always said, "You can't talk about the fate of the universe on an empty stomach." ... Actually, she never said that. -- Eric Jensen, Astro prof

• Pets? We don't have pets. I mean, they're really big mold, what? -- Kyla Tornheim '01

• My ass is doing a perfectly good job of kicking itself. -- Xanthi Carras '01 on finals week

• All roads lead to sex. Rome is adjacent. -- Alastair Thompson '99

• Unitarian weddings tend to be high on the music and low on the God. -- Samira Mehta '00

• Thongs are against the ethos of life. -- Liz Meehan '01

• God is a little sketchy. -- Heather Stern '00, on what to contemplate upon becoming a Quaker mystic.

• Putting up daggers on the wall always does so much for the hominess of a room. -- Kyla Tornheim '01

• My entire existence can be summed up by a supermarket and a Bunsen burner! -- Hollis Easter '03

• Penguins are just really marginal birds. -- Ed Kako, psychology prof

• English poetry is like a rose, but Navajo poetry is like a cactus plant. -- Ted Fernald, Linguistics prof, making a point on how weird language is

• Rashad Foley '02: How do you use binoculars as an instrument?
  Ted Fernald (incredulously): You dip 'em in paint!

• If you know anything about quarks, you wouldn't posit all this [syntactic theory].... -- Ted Fernald, Ling prof

• Aaah! You're not allowed to say "adjective" for two more classes! -- Ted Fernald, Ling prof, to Rashad

• We do it the old-fashioned way: we use brute force. -- Ted Fernald

• I believe we have breaks because we need them. So my suggestion is that you take the break. Eat chocolate. -- Donna Jo Napoli, Linguistics prof

• Did we forget to mention the nakeditity of the Prodigal Son?
  In a Biblical sense, of course.
  I mean, he was wearing the modern equivalent of a fig leaf...
  Dark blue silk boxers and a t-shirt.
  And the prophets did proclaim him "King of the Grunge."
  And there was much rejoicing. -- Hollis Easter '03

• When I walk into an exam, I don't know if I'm smelling fear or just the poor personal hygiene of Swatties. --Joey Genereux '01

• Please don't try to bite my shirt off me. If you want me to take it off, just ask...and I'll say no. -- Hollis Easter '03

• We have better-than-average facility with the language of greatest vocabulary on the planet at our disposal, and an exchange of ideas is essentially nothing more than an erudite version of mime. -- Hollis Easter '03

• Wednesday, Eric Raimy will be speaking on "Representing Reduplication". You might know Eric as our phonetics lab coordinator and/or as our administrative assistant. Actually, he's Dr. Eric (linguist extraordinaire), and he's a wonderful phonologist. He's going to be talking about the phenomenon of reduplication. "Reduplication Schmeduplication," you say? Well, sure, in English we only do rather dumbo things with reduplication, but lots of languages are smarter than us. And he's going to talk about lots of languages. Whether or not you've had phonology, this is going to be fun. And, as usual, there will be pizza starting at 6:30. So come, you little ding-a-lings (see how goofy English is). -- Donna Jo Napoli

• I hate abstaining. Sin now! -- Kyla Tornheim '01

• Is he even proud of his ultimate destiny as a bush? --Rosaria Munson, Classics professor, on a character from Dante's Inferno

• ...And the other end of the tube goes to a gallon milk jug with a spider in it. Yikes! -- Carr Everbach, Acoustics prof

• No god, just chocolate. -- Kyla Tornheim '01

• Me is so important. I like me. -- Kyla Tornheim '01

• Oh, come on, evil incarnate would know who rules various countries. -- Kyla Tornheim '01, responding to a comment on George W. Bush being evil incarnate.

• So this god says, "Whoa, hold on there!" This is a very loose translation of the text. -- Don Swearer, professor of Religion

• That's my larynx. -- Carr Everbach, Acoustics prof, setting a plastic bag on the table

• I thought you were confused, and there's no answer for that. Rosaria Munson, Classic prof

• I can see why Judas would be worthy of being chewed by Lucifer.... -- Lindsay Herron '00, on Dante's Inferno

• We know the dangers of love poetry. -- Rosaria Muson, Classics prof

• Purgatory's the greatest invention. Rosaria Munson, Classics prof

• Damn you and your heathen spawn, you're not Terry! -- Hollis Easter, while waiting for a ride from Terry Harvey, Scottish dance teacher

• Soon they're all going to be holding hands and singing the Barney song! -- Kyla Tornheim '01, on the souls in Dante's Purgatorio

• Janet Williams, ornithology prof, on watching a Red-bellied Woodpecker: This isn't "I'm looking for bugs." This is advertising. It's probably a male.
  Tenaya Scheinman '01: I'm sexy; I can pound on a tree?

• Janet Williams: Oh, Anna! Where are your eyes?
  Anna Hess '00: In my head.
  Janet: Oh good.