Quotation Book--Senior Year FMHS

Ahh...America Juice.
-Kate Perrine (high school friend) on Coca-Cola while in France

FREEDOM!!!
-a word I associated with a hilarious painting depicting a naked man prancing around on a cliff in the Louvre--became a catch phrase among group on a trip to France)

Je suis un hot dog.
-Matt Sova (high school friend)

Don't bother going to Paris. Disgusting city.
-me

Un photo, s'il vous plaît?
-most frequently used phrase during France trip.

It became a contest, then, of social graces...
-me

FLUNCH!! (kiddie restaurant in France) spawned phrases Flunch you, Go to Flunch, I feel Flunchy, Have you Flunched yet? etc.
-France trip

I want to just stand in the yard under the sprinkler and point at the sky, shouting "AIR-PANE"
-Adam Miller

I just know that one day after the park closes, the music will turn off, all the streetlamps will torch up, and a voice will come over the intercom and say "You are in Hell..."
-Ross from the rockwall, on employment at Paramount's Carowinds theme park

Something is moving--Run Away!!
-Sarah Miller's (high school friend) cat, Monster. (Actions interpreted by work friend Wes Baker)

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
-Brad Pitt, Fight Club

I have the worst breath of any man or beast--there's no way to fight it.
-Garrison Keillor in sketch "The Lives of the Cowboys," A Prairie Home Companion

Go euthanasia--we've gotta keep humans from being.
-Kara Gabauer (high school friend)/Ko

Let me put it this way--I wear more makeup than my mother.
-Jay Gordon--vocalist, "Orgy"

You know, Hobbes, it's nice to hush up a while and let autumn stick in a few words.
-Calvin and Hobbes

How do you spell 'America?' A-M-E-R-I-K-A?
-Dennis Alferink (Carowinds exchange employee from Holland)

It is common courtesy to wear a shirt if you are hairier than an Italian gorilla on Rogaine.
-Kara Gabauer

"According to the chaos theory, your tiny change in this universe can completely shift the destiny of another universe, possibly killing every inhabitant." "Shift happens." "Fire it up!"
-Dogbert and Dilbert

You rock my party hardcore, or 135 degrees.
-Debby Flores (close friend)

If your backpack was a kangaroo, this would be its joey.
-Jason Ford (AP English teacher) on dictionaries

C'mon guys, you're sittin' there like bumps on a pickle.
-Mrs. Spittle (public speaking teacher)

Stop bitching--start a revolution.
-bumper sticker

Hooking up computers is a lot like having unprotected sex--what kinds of viruses does the other harbor?
-me

Sleep more--type less.
-me

. . . And sometimes the President of the US goes to the UN security council and says "This is how it will be." and China abstains.
-Ko

Fellowship of Christian Athletes--you don't have to be a Christian or an athlete. . . its the Everybody Club!
-Erin Doran (high school friend)

If the USA doesn't want to lead, who will--and how?
-who knows

Y'know, people look at what you're wearing before they see what your personality is; they look at who you're standing with instead of what you're standing for.
-Katie Hillagher (classmate)

That's like going to the video store and shopping for milk.
-Debby Flores

...and in 1972 the island of Kosankeland. . .
-Chris Garrick (Model UN classmate)

Beware of flying Chinese people with subtitles.
-Tracey Johnson (classmate) on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

What do you call a Jamaican proctologist? --Pokémon.
-Tommy Ray (neighbor)

You're about to get struck down, like an operative clause.
-Ashley McFarland (classmate)

We came; we tried; we failed.
-Scott Carley on Swedish military forces (Model UN classmate)

There's usually this huge disparity between the number of thinks we would like to learn compared to the amount of stuff we already know. There's a lot of stuff like that--like the pyramid thing with the creepy eyeball on the back of a dollar bill. I mean, what the hell is that? I honestly don't have any idea. But the thing is, I don't think anyone else knows for sure either. The thing is just weird as hell. I mean, why an eye? Why a pyramid? Think about it. When you turn over a dollar bill you'd never expect to see a glowing ear hovering over the Parthaenon, so why's the eyeball above the pyramid acceptable?
-Josh Myers

. . .and I don't know why I'm telling you this, but...
-Ko

What is a 'happy' word? 'Bunny' is a happy word. 'Rabbit' is not a happy word.
-Jason Ford

Ahh, South Carolina. Too small to be a country, too large to be an insane asylum.
-relayed by Ko

Would the delegate from the USA like a cookie?
-Jonathan Malphrus (Model UN classmate) representing the PLO

Kosanke's Ko-Horts. . .
-me

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
-Napoleon the Pig. George Orwell, Animal Farm

Kids don't spread joy--they spread germs.
-Jennifer Patterson (i have no idea)

Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
-Benjamin Franklin. 1755.

Go ahead and laugh all you want--I've still got my philosophy.
-Ben Folds 5 (from Nate Welker, high school friend)

"What a coincidence that you said that--my roommate and I were just talking about that yesterday." "Yeah, you think there's really something interesting to talk about--but there's not."
-Rachel and Cousin Josh

What we need is pain-sensitive computers--ones that, when you punch them, know, "I will never do that again."
-Cousin Josh

If idiots could fly this place would be a frickin' airport.
-t-shirt

You know, if you were any more negative I think you would implode.
-Sister

I didn't go snowboarding--I went fallin' down a mountain.
-Cousin Josh

Listen, Zorak--this is how it is.
-Nate Welker

Boredom is the root of all evil.
-Kierkegaard

The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.
-Earnest Hemingway

"I can't get da gum offa my finguh. . ." "Behold, the quintessence of the AP student!"
-Scott Carley, Jason Ford

Search your feelings--you know him to be gay.
-me (Yoda rip-off)

If you were any closer to the cutting edge, you'd be bleeding.
-Jason Ford

Your immune system keeps you healthy--but it can also kill you.
-Mrs. Davis (Biology 2 teacher)

Isn't that remarkable!
-Willy Loman from Death of a Salesman

Sometimes a lamp-post is just a lamp-post.
-Minkin

If I touch something red-hot, so many messages come through my spinal cord that the message "this is hot" doesn't reach my brain before my spine says "move, stupid." I have to move before my brain can say "ouch."
-Mrs. Davis

Cry me a river, then build a bridge and jump off.
-Kate Liotta (classmate)

You're all schizophrenic, because I'm not real.
-Debby Flores

My car and I go everywhere together.
-me

Tomorrow is 'Hug your friend who has Leprosy' Day.
-Kara Gabauer

The burden borne by the super-flexible is that, to achieve comfort, you have to stretch really, really weird.
-me

All liars smell like chicken.
-Jason Ford

We live for Trivial Pursuit and Treasure Bear!
-12th grade AP English class joke

Jump back, Eminem--here's Fabe!
-Kate Liotta

La Patchanka's the sound for proud souls and lonely hounds.
-Mano Negra, Patchanka album cover

Say that in English.
-Mrs. Davis