Still More Dr. M Quotes June 28, 2009

A third installment of quotes from Dr. M.

Enjoy.

“That’s not as ponderous as it seems.”

“They were not among the winners, only among the quasi-winners.”

“Because it’s Latin! That’s just the way you do it!”

“It’s a bulbous structure in the history of language.”

“Remember the cats? Say ‘goodbye’ to the cats!”

“I could draw you another map, but I think I’ll project instead.”

“We could make it darker if you want.”

” ‘Sarmatia’ is a nebulous Roman word for ‘we don’t know what’s up there’.”

“Oh, natural light! Aren’t you excited?”

“Be happy: it’s prose.”

“No parentheses in poetry, unless you’re writing a very particular kind of poetry that allows for parentheses.”

“Anglo-Saxons didn’t orate to objects.”

“You all grew up in a different century; do you know that?”

“There’s not a lot of precision in the names of fish in ancient Anglo-Saxon English.”

“At your leisure, you may enjoy the rest of the story which involves a big fish and the king of Ninevah.”

“It’s hard to know what any war is really about.”

“When it becomes nighttime, it’s so hard to elicit excitement.”

“A particularly rich and ambiguous word–no, not ‘lexicographer’–is the word ‘credit’.”

“You get pictures with your listening tonight, but you can close your eyes if you want.”

Quotes by Dr. Hayes… June 16, 2009

Not as good as Dr. Macey, but it’s something:
“Back then I thought, ‘I don’t want to do this right now.’ Now I don’t want to do it at all.”
“Writing a book is like throwing a party: you want interesting people at your party.”
“You remembered more than I expected.”
“I’m in a digressive mood today.”
“Liberals are in charge, in college at least.”
“Going to the library should be like Chuck Norris going into Vietnam…get in, get what you need, and get out.”
“It’s always important to remember how to count.”
“In Shakespeare’s time, you have to wonder: what were the printer’s drinking?! It wasn’t water!”

More Quotes From Dr. M. October 22, 2008

Dr. M. (so called in order to keep Dr. Macey anonymous) is forever piping up with the cutest/smartest/weirdest statements in class.  Here is part two of an ongoing catalogue of his best little nuggets:

 

“Have you seen the wonderful Latin translation of ‘Cat in the Hat’?”

“You won’t catch Vergil rhyming.”

“Are we all straining to be literate?”

“Boy, the Romans loved dates.”

“To speak Latin in the ancient world was to be human.”

“Can you be heroic and ineffective at the same time?”

“How can you be interested in people you’ve hypothesized? Actually, sometimes they’re the most interesting.”

“English is the poor body that got buried under Norman armor and Latin books. English then clambered out of the wreckage and said, “I’m still here, I just sound different.”

“This was a generic snake. Well, not that generic because it talks to people.”

“That’s for your enjoyment, or for recycling.”

“Authoritarianism has never gone over well in England. Just ask Charles I.”

“This has been an extraordinary day, and not in the good way.”

” ‘I’ is about the slenderest word you can make.”

“Prose will make you happy if the poetry didn’t.”

“You spontaneously speak well, not because you swallowed a grammar book, but because you think clearly.”

“You all look very studious. We should have a photographer come in and take photos for the website.”

“It’ll be kind of exciting, like a picnic. We’ll have cookies and move to another room. We’ll make that warm, fuzzy feeling last all week.”

“If you see IT, tell them we’re killing trees because they didn’t fix our speakers.”

“There’s plenty to be scared of in life, but you can’t be scared of everything.”

“Would you prefer to be amused in the dark or in the light?”

“You were going to think and listen before, but now we’re going to imagine.”

“Lake Ontario–the least great of the Great Lakes.”

“There will be a Korean movie on Friday night in CB120. I will also be doing magic, you know, to lure people in.”

“A really mushy banana is worse than a crunchy banana.”