Browse Professor Quotes

So we're starting to get suicidal, we're just at the point I want you.
—Rusty Nelson, Vis Comm 2. After reminding the class of upcoming due dates.
It turns out that humans really aren't too hard to kill!
—Dr. Pflueger, PHRE 185: Exploring Religions
If you're in denial, you have more of a problem than you realize.
—from Lifetime Health and Fitness (Professor Obvious)
Thanksgiving is great, but all the turkeys are wearing black armbands!
—Dr. Pflueger, PHRE 185: Exploring Religions
You guys can do with it whatever you want. It's both safe and legal.
—Dr. Rolnick, Nuclear Weapons JINS, while handling radioactive materials.
Microsoft makes operating systems, Macintosh is a religion, and UNIX is a cult!
—Dr. Neitzke, after class
Polite people don't divide by zero.
—Dr. Bindner, Calc 192
They're the slut morphemes. They don't care; they'll go with anything.
—Dr. Shapiro discussing how clitics can be attached to any word, in Advanced linguistics
I need a sack and a package. Make sure it's a big package. And make sure it's hard when you look at it.
—Rusty Nelson, in reference to our hard copies for an art project.
Aarrgg, it's the flux!. . .I don't know why I said that like a pirate just then. I'm free associating. I need to stop.
—Professor Beaky in Astronomy class, accidentally revealing his secret desire to be Johnny Depp.
And now for a reading from that most valuable of all news sources, the Onion. (reads headline title:) 'God Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder'.
—Dr. Daschke, PHRE386: Psychology and Religion
God is everywhere, but sometimes you don't feel God's presence very much. Like in a bar.
—Dr. Pflueger, PHRE 185: Exploring Religions
I think Attorney General Ashcroft would be a lot nicer if he just smoked some marijuana.
—Dr. Shaffer, Physiological Psychology
And tomorrow I'll be giving all my students gonorrhea.
—Dr. Lockhart, Medical Microbiolgy, about lab
I'd be a good alcoholic.
—Dr. Poyner, COMM 170
Whats with these kids these days? Instead of spending millions of dollars on education for them, we should just build a shed for all these tools.
—Prof. Sal Costa in Psych class
Now pretend that I'm a really pointy metal probe...
—Professor Carter, Chemistry 120 - giving a visual demonstration of how a scanning tunneling microscope works.
I need some little 'batons' of cotton that you cram in your ear.
—Dr. Cook, ENG 414 - Language and the Mind, spoken in French to a pharmacist, talking about circumlocution and trying to describe Q-tips (which, btw, are 'Q-tips' in French)
Now recite the alphabet musically, as if it were a love poem!
—Dr. Coates, Spanish 261, trying to inspire classroom creativity
I'm all about stealing. You should steal people's ideas, then just change them a little, otherwise it's plagiarism. But stealing...that's the way to go.
—Professor Spitzer, explaining the basis of creative writing in his Advanced Fiction Workshop
Hey baby, I got some cool lenses here. Would you like to look at the tiny animals on your teeth?
—Dr. Herrera, Microbiology, describing how old microbiologists used to score with the ladies.
Most of you have had human sex before...
—Jeanne Mitchell, in Pathophysiology, referring to the fact that most students in the class had taken Human Sexuality.
If someone blew up the lecture hall, you could use this technique to figure out which pile of ashes with glasses on top was me and which pile of ashes with glasses on top was Walter.
—Dr. Buckner, Genetics - explaining a DNA analysis technique
You can only get AIDS from hypodermic needles not from bongin' it up. Well, unless someone is seriously lippin' it up.
—PSYC 266: Experimental Psychology
Stay tuned for anal rape.
—Mrs. Carlson, English 190
Doing harm is harmful.
—Allan Garvey speaking about internet security
I'm simultaneously flummoxed, and, more than a little titillated.
—Dr. Easley, Math 263
Virginity is in the eye of the beholder.
—Dr. Petkov in Medieval Europe
I know...you're all just dying to say the word 'asshole'!
—Dr. Twining, Bio 100, while discussing the development of the anus in mammals.
It was a bad idea. We're sorry we thought of it.
—Dr. Hanley discussing the way the South felt after they lost the Civil War.
The excrement is about to hit the oscillator.
—Professor Hagerty, Political Science 161: American National Government
This amulet is either real gold or metal gold.
—Professor Sara Orel, Non-Western Art. Not much need to explain this one.
You get your vectors mixed up and you introduce a minus sign into everything, blow up the nuclear station down the road, your neutrons become protons, your protons become electrons, everything explodes and the whole world ceases to exist, but you still want partial credit on your test question.
—Professor Easley, Math 263: Calculus II
Oh and it felt so good the whole time we were doing it. But now its the morning after...
—Dr. Easley after letting a student lead the class through a falty proof
Do you remember when butt was a bad word? You would go around saying butt, butt, butt, so happy that you lived on the edge.
—Dr. Woodcox, Writing About Literature
If you can't restrain yourself, you may get up and shake it.
—Janet Davis (JINS 329) as we were listening to rap music in class.
When you ask a kid and he says he has no friends at school, well, then school is not a good place for him.... Why don't more kids drop out of school? Their friends are there.
—Dr. Martin in Psychological Foundations of Education
You're going to get government funding to have sex with great people! What could be better than that?
—Dr. Tigner on eugenics in History and Systems in Psychology
Me and the book are pretty tight.
—Dr. Allen, BSAD 352
There's nothing wrong with trial and error. Doctors use it every day.
—Professor Easley, Math 263: Analytic Geometry and Calculus II
Cattle Ranchers-they've got cows in their yard and romance in their hearts.
—Dr. Hatala, in Experiental Psychology, talking about how we might stay in Kirksville and marry a local
I'm undaunted by my incompetency.
—Dr. Partenheimer, Mythology
Here we see an image of Zeus throwing his thunderbolt. In the next picture, he's doing the same thing, only with less clothes on.
—Dr. Pflueger, PHRE 185: Exploring Religions
It's like the 'rh' in diarrhea. It means 'to flow'.
—Prof. Davis, COMM 170, explaining the greek meaing of rhetoric in speech.
...and then these transport proteins go through the opening of the K+ channel... GOD! Everything reminds me about sex!
—Dr. Goldman, Biology 108
NO! I don't think we were meant to believe people were jerking off at poetry readings.
—Professor Tetlak - Latin 350 - Satire
The next time someone says 'fuck', give him a hug.
—Professor Chett Breed giving advice to students during an ENG 416 discussion of the use of profanity in Young Adult Literature
...because linguistic science is bullshit.
—Dr. Rodney Taylor, GERM 230: Intermediate German 1
At this point in the year I'm about ready to start erasing the board with my tongue.
—Professor Pites, Spanish 261
“I’m simultaneously flummoxed, and, more than a little titillated.”
—Professor Easley, MATH 263: Analytical Geometry and Calculus II
It is your ethical duty to not be stupid.
—Professor Davis, COMM 170
I don't know where it came from, but that was definitely a quack.
—Professor Ryan, during LAS Calc
You think you have free will? No, you're just an ant...or a really fast carrot.
—Dr. Leavens discussing an author's belief on free will in American Realism and Naturalism
I don't get many opportunities to make sperm so I am gonna make this one worth my while.
—Jeanne Mitchell, Cell Biology
After a while, the pure water gets bored and starts playing with itself
—Dr. Festa, chem. 121
Legally, I don't have to wear my glasses to drive. Practically, I should. But it's so much more exciting to try to figure out all the blurry lines and shapes.
—Dr. Breault, PSYC 166: General Psychology
Well, gravity still works!
—Dr. Lamp, Chemistry, after dropping something in class.
How can we make this problem sexier?
—Dr. Paul Fellows, Professor of Finance
It's like Bill Gates's salary compared to mine. We can assume mine is zero.
—Dr. Hahn, PHYS 320, when trying to explain how physicists can ignore certain things.
Today I wanted to wear my pretty dress and wings to class. Ooh, and I have a tiara.
—Dr. Breault, PSYC 166: General Psychology
I would like to close today with a brief prayer. I would like to pray that for each of you... No, I'm just kidding, I don't want to pray. I just love seeing everyone's faces when I say that.
—Chet Breed, English Senior Seminar
What you need to do is to write a sexy thesis statement.
—Professor Wandel, World Civ 133
The first symptom of heart disease is death.
—Professor Bird, Health 194
I hope I'm that cool when I'm an 80-year-old woman!
—Dr. Kenneth Carter- who is a MAN- Chem 120
Hey girls show these guys some ovaries!
—Dr. Carroll, Biology 100, said this while we were looking for ovaries in our dissected pig.
Too many poop jokes and, well, I just feel so bad for Kenny!
—Dr. Breault, Experimental Psychology, explaining why she doesn't watch South Park
The difference between an A and a B (pause) is that an A is a higher grade.
—Mark Spitzer, Creative Writing, after being asked how to receive and A and not a B in his class
Aristophanes and the producers blew their wad on the frogs instead of on the robes of the initiates.
—Professor Tetlak - Greek Lit. Made in reference to Aristophanes greek comedy, "The Frogs".
So, basically, keep doing this forever. Now, when you're done doing it forever, you'll get this...
—Dr. Peter Rolnick, in reference to an infinitely re-iterative process in Mathematical Physics class.
Humans are entropy poopers.
—Dr. Samiullah, Physics 100, discussing the fact that humans are organized because they pull in organization from their surroundings, and discard entropy.
You have upsidedown pages in your book! Oh, the whole book is upsidedown.
—Dr. Dew Chemistry 121- as she picked up a student's textbook to look at the appendix in the back of the book.
Contrary to Nancy Reagan and the DARE program, most drugs are a blast.
—Dr. Vittengl, Psychology 366
In the sixties we slept with people to see if we wanted to get to know them better.
—Dr. Alexander talking about male/female relationships
There is something important that you all need to know. Apparently Mary made out with a freshman last night.
—Dr. Applegate, talking about a girl in our class.
Don't worry I'm not going to draw a penis
—Dr. Rao Ramesh Intercultural communication, talking about hindu temples and how some of them look like a penis
This is a very interesting book. It tells you how to fuck shit up.
—Professor Spitzer, Eng 266: American Lit (in reference to the book "Ecodefense")
In Austria, every child, even retarded children learn to read by the age of seven.
—Dr. Martin (ED 593) on how the complexity of the English language makes teaching reading difficult
How does one know that tree really means a leafy whatever-whatever?
—Dr. Engber, explaining semantic meaning to an Intro to Linguistics class
Which is the party dorm? I'd like to know that myself.
—Janet Davis, Comm 170
I want to quit my job, put my kids up for adoption, and sit around all day playing GTA3.
—Mark Hatala - Psyc 331 - Cognitive Psychology - Random musings before class
Everybody has that list of people they want to molest.
—Mary Hurley, COMM 355 - Radio
When it comes to the final, I am very mean.
—Professor Ding-hwa Hsieh, Exploring Religions
I see at least fifteen faces that I don't ever recall seeing in this class before.
—Hollis Crawford, commenting on the number of people who just show up for the tests in Game Fish Management
So you're running from a bear and you're thinking, 'I want to have sex with the first thing I see!'
—Dr. Shulte discussing whether penile erections are sympathetic or parasympathetic.
Calling someone a f***ing whore is linguistically redundant, but you don't say that to people with gun racks on their car.
—Dr. Cook, Linguistics, giving examples of linguistic redundancy
Good thing I'm wearing underwear
—Dr. Rice...after realizing his pants were unzipped
Hello, I'm a member of your species. May I germinate on your stigma?
—Professor Hooper Biology 108
I'm a groupie for Trinitarian Ontology. If The Trinitarian Ontologies ever come to the Aquadome, I'll be in the mosh pit.
—Dr. Dennis Leavens, English 348: Modern British Literature
Student insurrections will be crushed!
—Prof. Taylor to German students when they attempted to preempt class for a walk
It's when people make their problems my problems that there's a problem
—Dr. Hatala, Experimental Psychology
You have to drink in that situation.
—Prof. Cooley, Criminology, speaking of dinner at the in-laws
Some mornings you wake up and the dog looks wrong.
—Professor Hirsch, HIST 105, explaining "one of those days."
The last type of committee is called the joint committee. They sit around and smoke marijuana cigarettes.
—Professor Przybylski, State and Local Government
Grammer is not a democracy.
—Professor Jewel after polling the class on wether something was a direct or indirect object.
Damn! Damn that Truman State University for not vacuuming their carpets!
—Lloyd Pfluger in Buddhism class- he continued lecturing immediately after this outburst...
Cops are good liars as to what their intentions are.
—Prof Jayne, Law II, discussing the high morals of police officers
I can't remember the details so... I'll make them up.
—Dr. Delmonico, Studies in Shakespeare
Imagine that this is fun.
—Dr. Thomas, Women and Gender, on lack of student discussion
I think it would be a deterrent to having kids if you thought they would get eaten.
—Professor Mark Hatala, Psych 261
Don't you just love ice cream, you know, the way that it makes love to your tongue when you put it in your mouth?
—Professor Herrera, Microbiology 304

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