Sunday, October 24, 2004
Kids Say the Darndest Things!
Funny and/or ridiculous quotes from things I wrote in undergrad:
On Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger -- "Perhaps Twain's novella is not meant to make a statement at all, but merely to distract readers from the ultimate nothingness that is existence."
On direct election of judges -- "The power can reside with the people, but it must be an informed power."
On Thoreau -- "As characters like Hesse's Steppenwolf or even the angst-filled teens on Dawson's Creek search plaintively for completeness in their inner being, they owe the pain and the joy of aspiration to the thinkers and writers of the American Renaissance."
On production/operations management, which I do not to this day understand -- "In a business like this, service is of incredible importance, and must be given substantial consideration."
On preservation, dabbling a bit in poetry --
"They know,
And we know,
That they will be the next to go,
Offered up in fawning sacrifice
To the insatiable god progress."
On multiculturalism -- "Five students. Five cultures. One house. No problem."
On first language acquisition -- "In the end, it may well be that love is the universal language."
On theatre -- "Anything Goes! provided trenchant social commentary on the era of American history when infamy first became the surest route to fame."
Funny and/or ridiculous quotes from things I wrote in undergrad:
On Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger -- "Perhaps Twain's novella is not meant to make a statement at all, but merely to distract readers from the ultimate nothingness that is existence."
On direct election of judges -- "The power can reside with the people, but it must be an informed power."
On Thoreau -- "As characters like Hesse's Steppenwolf or even the angst-filled teens on Dawson's Creek search plaintively for completeness in their inner being, they owe the pain and the joy of aspiration to the thinkers and writers of the American Renaissance."
On production/operations management, which I do not to this day understand -- "In a business like this, service is of incredible importance, and must be given substantial consideration."
On preservation, dabbling a bit in poetry --
"They know,
And we know,
That they will be the next to go,
Offered up in fawning sacrifice
To the insatiable god progress."
On multiculturalism -- "Five students. Five cultures. One house. No problem."
On first language acquisition -- "In the end, it may well be that love is the universal language."
On theatre -- "Anything Goes! provided trenchant social commentary on the era of American history when infamy first became the surest route to fame."
