[QOTW] Quote of the Week: Sunday, January 23, 2005

[Quote of the Week]

Citizens of our Quotocracy:

I hope all of you are enjoying the absolutely lovely weather this morning;
it's so nice and warm (double-digit degrees!), I feel like shovelling out
my driveway in a pair of shorts. Commonwealth Seniors, I do think that
today is the last day of our pre-vacation weekend- use it wisely. I wish
the rest of a happy and productive Project Week or normal life or whatever
passes for it. After a drawn-out battle for last week's honor of Quote of
the Week between Norris, Joanna, The Wharton, and The Puntificator (that
would be me), a winner did finally emerge:

"They're all dead because they missed the ark. Or because two gay unicorns
boarded the ark. But that would be blaming the gay community." -Norris
Wong on the disappearance of unicorns


Congratulations Mr. Wong. I'm sure that we would have unicorns today if
only viagra had been common in those days. But, not to dilly-dally, here
are today's offerings:


"I think his taste in music got mixed up with some other kid's taste in
music at the hospital.  Like, each took home the other's taste in music.
So there's some really tender, feeling kid out there who listens to Rob
Zombie." -Roswell Thomas, on Nathan Potter's surprising taste in music

"It's a very heart-wrenching story, especially when you read it in fourth
grade.  You're like, wow, maybe there's more to life than getting hopped
up on sugar; then you turn on the TV, watch afternoon cartoons, and
realize, nope, that was just a blip on the radar screen." -Paul Cavallaro,
on the novel Flowers for Algernon

"Today Mr. Riahi told me to 'forget about Brown' and went into a long rant
about how overrated Brown was.  I was like, 'Okay Mr. Riahi, thanks, but
can we get back to this integral?'" -Nora Rojas

"What's mafia? Just another word for business." -Lora Tamagini,
Micheline's voice teacher

"If my child wanted to become an itinerant street musician I'd say 'honey,
we need to talk'" - Becca Thal

"You know how you go into exams with 8 pencils and you come out and
they're all dull? The same thing happens to your brain! You go in with a
sharp wit and when you come out you're all stub." -Ben Orlin, flashing his
stub

“I need to practice being a woman.” –Mariah, recently cast as Roxeanne in
Cyrano de Bergerac

"I would die if I had to live in Hell- I mean Hull." -Laura Zarougian, on
Hull

"Do you have any tips for getting focused on a dreadful task besides
singing and dancing along to "I Will Survive"?" –Jenn

"When a five-year-old is about to touch a pot on the stove, you say: 'No!
Hot, bad, ow!' You don't tell him: 'Look at the chemistry of this heat
transfer...' That's what God is doing with us -- he's giving us the
watered down version of things." –Donna, on Paradise Lost



-Ben "I think that's ten nominations, but I lost a couple fingers on my
right hand to frostbite last week, so I can't be sure" Miller