Quotes

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Elenore Roosevelt

"If you try to fail and succeed, which have you really done?" -Comedy On Tap

"There's a Communist under your bed!!!!" -John Wagner, history teacher extrodinaire

"If you ever have a bag of animal crackers, you have to promise to give me all of the ducks.  Especially the assless ducks."  -Steph Kuehne

"A friend of mine confused her valium with her birth control pills.  She had 14 kids, but she doesn't give a damn."  -Unknown

"A sneeze is an orgasm of the nose." -Heather Buckingham
"Build-up... build up... build-up.... build up.... BIG MESSY RELEASE!!!" -My corollary to Heather's comment

"May you always be as vivd as your hallucinations." -Surrealist Compliment Generator

"I'm a lover, not a fighter."  -Doug Wilson

"OOM!!  I'm a dyslexic cow!!"  -Kristen Koester

"You're my Won Ton soup, baby!!"  -Peter Rinehart
"That's so !@#$in' romantic."  -My response

"Let's drown our sorrows in syrup and ice."  -Courtney Weiner, on the way to the snowball stand

"WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!"  -AMA battle cry

"3am is Naked Time!!"  -Chelsea Morris, and later on all of Pax's recruits

"I'm not sure exactly.  All I know is it's fries, a salad, and some sort of pig product."  -Me, on ordering our first meal in Europe, swineschnitzel

"I'm not the master of cold!!  I'm Mother Nature's bitch!!"  -Kurt Anderson, on top of the Alps in a hailstorm, wearing shorts and a t-shirt

"I'm soooo vulnerable now.....probably shouldn't have said that out loud."  -Me

"Corn....wheat.....fence.....baby corn......wheat.....cabbage.....corn..." -Me and Mike Cromwell, naming things out the window of the bus

"Ok, kids, ze bar is open!"  -Harry

"Wax on, wax AAUUGGHH!!!!" -Jason Gagliardi

"How high is the average Alp?"  -Doug Wilson

"How do you say 'Midol' in Italian?" -Me, unfortunately enough :-(

"We're not even on the map anymore, you bitch!" -Doug Wilson on my navigational skills

"Don't look, don't ask, just get me a Wet-Nap." -Me

"We can find Notre Dame if we just keep headed toward the spires." -Jason Gagliardi

"Wait a minute! Notre Dame doesn't HAVE spires!" -Jason Gagliardi, two hours later

"You didn't know and I didn't know, you know, who knew!"  -Roseann Rinehart

"We're all brought into this world the same way:  naked, wet, and screaming.  And with a little luck and planning, it doesn't have to end there..." -Unknown

"I talked philosophy with you... remember?  I think you were drunk at the time, but I was still impressed with some of your opinions..."  -Jason Gagliardi

"If I didn't have emotions, I'd be a lot happier...."  -Asheen Phansey

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” -François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

"I think one of the disadvantages of being my height is that certain things go right over my head." -me, on my Science, History, and Beliefs class.
"Well, at least they don't go in one ear and out the other... thats a hell of a lot more painful." -Rob Donahue's always insightful response.

"You can't change the past..you can only screw up the future." -Daniel Quintana

"My dear boy, if I am occasionally a bit overdressed, I make up for it by always being immensely over-educated." -Algernon Moncrieff

"NONSENSE!! ABSOLUTE NONSENSE!!  I've never heard of such nonsense before in my life..." -both casts of "The Importance of Being Earnest" (In Case of Forgotten Line, Break Glass)

"I look like a marshmellow... I have no breasts!!" -Nakiya Vasi, expressing displeasure over her costume

"How much longer till we can start Act II?"
"Give us, like, 5 minutes."
"Alright, but make it a quick 5 minutes...." - Mr. David Papke (director) and me, working on "Earnest"

"I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse." -Woody Allen

"Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime."  -Jean Pierre Claris De Florian

"You're in denial."
"Am not!"  -Dan Q and me

"Oh come on.  You know I pick on you because I like you."
"You know I put up with it because you're adorable."  -Brian Rudo and me

"When you are dancing with your partner, for that two and a half minutes, you are in love with each other. You're corresponding with each other by the moves that you make. It's a love affair, between you and your partner and the music.You feel the music, you feel your partner, she feels you and she feels the music.So there the three of you are together. You've got a triangle, you know. Which one do you love best?"  -Frankie Manning (away message of Greg Jackson)

"I remember we were driving, driving in your car
The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I had a feeling that I belonged
And I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone"  -Tracy Chapman, Fast Car

"Should I go down on 'scotch'?"
"Well... if that's what floats your boat...." -Lee Anne Janney and Mr. Papke

"When you said forever, I guess the
forever that you meant must be much
shorter than I planned."   - Rockapella, Don't Tell Me You Do

"The funny thing about quotes, is that anyone can make up a quote about just about any possible topic, and people will generally accept it as relevant and meaningful at first glance, regardless of how assinine it may truly be."  -Andy Martin (y'know, he's absolutely right..... ;-) )

"If you ever say anything clever sounding, shut up for the rest of your life so that your last words will be good."  -Scott Snowman

"I'm tired of it!  This is what I got, this is how its going to turn out, and, I'm sorry, I'm just not going to apologize for any of it!"  -me, in an exasperated moment while writing my senior paper

"Its not just a play festival!  It's ritual!  It's society!  It is the living, breathing, touching, feeling, thinking, embodiment of art!  It is.... Theatre!!!"  -Teacher 2, Competition Piece

"...We've been at this for three days now.  Every single person has read every single line on every single page of the first five scenes."  -Will, Competition Piece (how appropriate)

"...He told me to go to a nunnery, and quickly, too."
"Didst thou go?"
"No -- I went mad instead..."  -Ophelia and Katherine, When Shakespeare's Ladies Meet

"I want to be sticky."  -Winifred, Impromptu

"Where did we meet?" "On a bus" "On a what?" "On a bus" "On a bus?" "Oh, on a bus!"  "I lost my purse" "Your what?" "Your purse" "Your what?" "Your purse" "Oh, my purse!"  "He payed my fare" "How much?" "10 cents" "How much?" "10 cents"  "Oh, 10 cents..."  -The cast of Impromptu rehearsing in the style of This is a Test.

"I want to tell you something, Bill:  what we need, what we need in life (and art is a part of life)(and a flower arrangement is part of art)(The Japanese have a word for it.  Which I've forgotten.  Its a two-syllable word.  Something like "Kamooka" -- a long discipline intended, no doubt, to get you in touch with yourself...)  What you need in art, and what you need in a bouquet, in short, is what you need in life."  -The Frog Prince (Matt Scheulen) in a role he was born to play...

"Those flowers you must offer me, or you will dwell in misery."
"You're pushing your luck, babe.  You really are." - The Witch and the Prince, Frog Prince

"Bill?  You OK?  I know it's easier for me. I don't eat much, I have cold blood. You gotta keep warm, and you need a little protein in you once in a while."  -The Prince, Frog Prince (Does ANYONE else see the sexual implications?...)

"I brought you this."
"Thank you.  What is it?"
"My heavy shawl."
"You brought me your shawl?"
"Yes.  I thought you could make a little, you could make a nest for yourself."  -The Milkmaid and The Prince, Frog Prince

"Those who think, think.  Those who act, act.  Those who think they can act..."
"TEACH DRAMA!"  -Emma (The Role of Della), with my own smart-ass corellary.

"Don't kill cast, crew, Papke, or self."  -me (my monthly goal for March)

"If you can get it up fast enough, you can get it on her."  -Mr. Papke (in reference to getting a spotlight on an actress), and later Steve Stelmack, repeatedly (in reference to getting something else on an actress...)

"Naked..."
"Head..."
"Cheese..."
"Sandwich."    -Chris Brown and Matt Scheulen, or Matt Scheulen and Chris Brown, it's hard to tell.

"I dunno, its just that now that the plays over, there's this empty space..."
"In your life?"
"No, in my backpack where I used to keep the script."  -me and Laurie Needer