Quotes we ran that made you think...or laugh

“One of the first things he asked us was, ‘What’s the first thing I should do?’”
— Chris Sawyer, chairman of the speech communication department, about Victor Boschini Jr.

“I don’t think there is any doubt that this is the largest flying saucer sect ever.”
— Miguel Leatham, an associate professor of anthropology, on the Raelians

“I really hate that clip from that speech. It reduces him to one speech, one time. He was a great orator and speaker. He was a great moral philosopher, strategist and a great leader.”
— Roger Wilkins, civil rights activist, on Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech

“They have parking facilities but they don’t want to use them. If you do park at TCU, you pay a hefty fine and that pushed them out into the neighborhoods. Now we are having to deal with it, and I want to push them back into their own parking lots and let them use the shuttle bus.”
— Marsha Cowdin, Frisco Heights neighborhood resident, on student parking in residential areas

“If they already lack the integrity not to cheat, they are not going to mind lying on an honor statement.”
— Becky Saltzman, a junior nursing major, on implementing an honor code

“24 Hour Fitness has nothing on this.”
— Mark Phillips, a junior marketing major, on the new Recreation Center

“The Constitution guarantees freedom of expression in this country, but those who exercise that right have a great responsibility. The Sniff article did not live up to that responsibility.”
— Brandon Ortiz, Co-Opinion editor

“I don’t know what stock is and I’m not even sure why there’s a show for it going on down the street.”
— Colleen Casey

“Many things affect your view of the world and the type of person you are other than how light bounces off you.”
— Patrick Jennings

“The LSAT is a strange beast which tests nothing one can memorize or even study. Arguments similar to the SAT about the racial bias in, for example, reading comprehension, are null and void when no one could possibly have a background which makes them more familiar with the pre-1930s hypotheses about radiation — an actual passage on my June test — than another.”
— Jenny Specht

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