It Bears Repeating

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4.28.2006

The sweetest revenge is success.
--?

4.24.2006

As finals approach and brings with it the urge to outline, make flashcards, and stress about the one-shot-determines-it-all exam at the end of the tracks... I thought a brief quotation tribute to grades was in order.

Grade me... look at me... evaluate and rank me! Oh, I'm good, good, good, and oh so smart! GRADE ME!
--Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons episode 2F19, "The PTA Disbands"


So Mr. Hammond said it was fine for me to miss class 'cause I'm already getting an A. So just as you suspected, Mom, I am better than everybody!
--Eric Forman (Topher Grace) on That 70's Show, Episode 27 Season 4, "Love Wisconsin Style"


Should I try to be a straight-A student? If you are, then you think too much.
--Billy Joel, "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me "

This is a giant block of whatever is most difficult for you to carry and trust me on this, you'll carry it more times than you can count until you decide that's exactly what you want to do most and then it won't weigh a thing anymore.
--Brian Andreas

I've never been so grateful for another person's headphones.
--Katie, 09/16/2004, upon seeing someone in a public location with whom she didn't particularly care to chat at that very moment, but noticing that said person was wearing headphones and thus wasn't actually noticing that Katie was there

4.21.2006

The thing is, [your clients] don't need to respect the profession. They just need to respect you.
--Thomas Eisele (Vice President, General Counsel, & Secretary of NIBCO, Inc.), 04/20/2006, on dealing with some clients' perception of lawyers and the legal profession in general

4.20.2006

Dude! Doug totally just threw up on Nelly!
--Nathan Winger, 09/16/2004, in Business Associations class with Professor Huss.

[The Full Explanation
: Doug Shaw, seated a couple rows ahead of us, had sort of coughed and leaned toward Jeromy Cannon, whom we nicknamed "Nelly" in reference to the rap artist Nelly's song #1 (because, you know, Jeromy is so totally #1 in our law school class)... and as Doug coughed, Jeromy sort of hopped in his chair over away from Doug, and it really did look like Doug might have almost puked. I have never had to try to hard not to burst out laughing in class as I did after I saw that--and then Nathan excitedly leaned toward me and made the above exclamation, and I had to put my head down on the desk and regain my composure, I was laughing so hard.]

We're going to party. Or we'll relax with a good amount of gusto.
--Nathan Winger, 08/08/2004, describing his goal to work hard and play hard in the coming semester.

4.19.2006

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
--Marilyn Manson

4.16.2006

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
--Jules Renard

4.15.2006

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
--Jerome K. Jerome

4.14.2006

Each society believes it is on the knife-edge of knowledge and looks back with pity on peoples of earlier times because of their ignorance. We forget that future generations will look back on us the same way.
--Marilyn Ferguson

Life is a long lesson in humility.
--James M. Barrie

4.12.2006

I'm not a person who thinks he can have it all, but I certainly feel that with a bit of effort and guile I should be able to have more than my fair share.
--George Carlin

4.11.2006

If you were a [potential] member of a jury, I'd have used a peremptory by now.
--blog commenter "Mythago" in response to another commenter's demand that he be addressed as though he were a member of a jury.

Two times two is not four. It is nine. Actually, everything is nine except seventeen. Seventeen is actually six.
--George Carlin

The concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites. . . . What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
--Martin Luther King, Jr., in a 1967 speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

4.09.2006

The man who wears no masks need never struggle to remember by which face another many remember him.