Quotes from 2008

I don't actually have the ability to narrow quotes down, so here's the long, extended list, with a few of my favorites bolded.

**If you think of anything others, PLEASE comment. It's so much fun going back through these memories!**


"So, what does bread mean, in 'give us this day our daily bread'?"
"FOOD?! I was just starting to not think about how hungry I am!"

Tristan "How many other people have been on Broadway?"
Jeremy "There's been like 500"
Abby "No WAY! There's been way more than 500!"
Me "Okay, Abby, look around you - how many other people in this room have been on Broadway besides yourself?"
Jeremy "I could have been on Broadway..."

"It could be referring to Christ's body, but what else could it be?"
"No way. It's....food symbolizes...knowledge"

"Hey Tristan, nice outfit (all black)"
"Yeah, but then you've got the brown shoes which completely messes it up"
"Why do you have to do that? I was admiring his outfit and you had to point out that he had brown shoes!"
"Well you've got some brown with black gloves going on"
"These are my only pair of gloves"
"Hmmm... too bad"

"Now, we need more people to join prayer partners. They're the people you see leave during the service, and it's not just because of Pastor Boris' teaching."

"Today we have Rick Cornfield here as a speaker, but Pastor Boris will be back speaking tonight, so I told him to pay attention this morning, since he usually doesn't"

"However, pretty soon Pastor Boris won't be speaking anymore"
"PRAISE THE LORD!"

"Okay, I'm not sure that this is biblically accurate, but this is the Cornfield family picture of what happened next..."

"Just the vans" (said by multiple people the entire break)

"What's Wrigley Field?" - Danny

"Dannnnnnny!" -Carole, Jenna, Dorothy, I etc

"All of my friends are dead. I'm the last living member of my bridge club" -Mr. Wailey

South of the Border - need I say more?

"Let's play twister in the hally without a mat!" - Carole

"So how was your ride down?" - Comparing the tortures of the bus vs van

McDonalds. Burger King. Wendys. Subway. Dairy Queen. We did them all.

"Wait - instead of a B-flat concert scale, let's do a B-natural concert scale, right Peter?" - Tom-tom
"PETER!" - The entire jazz band

"YES! If the rest of the show doesn't get them, killing children will!" -Hurd (after Gavroche died)

Referring to Javert's Suicide (in all irony, sarcasm, and joking):
"I thought your suicide was nice last night"
"Thank you. I pride myself on my ability to commit suicide"
"Are you going to put that on your resume?"
"Of course! Not many Ivy League schools have people who can commit suicide like I can"
"You should become a professor of suicide"
"Okay, today we'll discuss why you should commit suicide and the various methods for carrying it out"

"Katie. She plays in the orchestra pit. She plays a lot of instruments I think. But mostly the clarinet, but I'm not sure. She's got blonde hair and I don't know from where. Katie." - Will's amazing song about me

"Murder is rarely a good option" - Mr. Hurd

"There are 4 seasons. Band camp, Field Band, Concert Band and Parade Season." - Peter

"Who needs MTV when you have Keleigh?" -Jeff C

"I think I need to get someone to teach me how to roll my eyes" - Keleigh

"I'm the only person in the world who can mess up making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. But Lauren messed up making Easy Mac!" -Jeff C

"You got into Houghton for your page-turning skills, right?" - Mrs. Foster

"Homework vs. Jesus. Well, I guess it's pretty obvious who wins this one" -Peter

"Smock, have you actually ever had a thought?" -Chris W

"Your name isn't a name! it's a gender!" - Marty

"God was very proud, I mean Guy" - Tom-tom

"KATIE! you are SO mean!" - various people

"No! Don't walk in the door! Just stand there!" - Peter

"You drank how much diet coke?!"

"I know someone who checked out the books written in spanish at our library. There's only 3 by the way"
"Wait - was it that one guy at your party? I think he mentioned something about that to me. I was like 'dude, how old are you?!' "

"I promise I won't be texting all evening" - Carole
*hours later*
"I thought you said you weren't going to be texting!!" -Me

"Peter! How can you drink so much soda? That's just disgusting!"

"That's his second 2L bottle"
"Peter! That's disgusting!"

"Oh, in case I haven't mentioned it to you already, that's his third 2L bottle"
"No, you hadn't mentioned that. That's disgusting"

"Do you mind if I jump on your bushes?" - Danny

"What happened to the birdie?" -Danny
"Uh, Danny....it's in your racket"

"Well, I did hit it pretty hard"

"Baked beans! I won on baked beans!"(While playing Apples to Apples)

"The green card is Touchy-Feelly"
"Teachers"
*pause*
*laughter*
"It's just so much better with Tom-tom here"
"I did NOT put that card down!"

"Unbelieveable."
"My body"
"Wait - you can't take that one out! That has to win! You stink Peter!"

"Who's Jack the Ripper?"

"I'm sorry Pat. You were trumped. Again. This time - Helen Keller"

"Oh, we're just speed racing" -Keister

"Let's just say I haven't heard anything like that before"

"Please don't murder Fanfare for the Common Man" - Me (to Peter)
*after it finishes*
"You just had to play those wrongs notes didn't you?" -Me
"I thought it was a nice touch!" - Peter

"Someone should write a piece entitled 'Fanfare for the Uncommon Man'"
"You mean, Fanfare for Peter Foster?"
"Yes, that would work too"

"Well, I've complained about Subway, Salsaritas, so I guess it's now McDonalds. Well, at least you guys are consistent"

"You were just conducting to yourself. For no reason. You couldn't even see a drum major. You weren't helping anyone. It was like you lost control of your hands"
"It was Swing Swing Swing. I had to conduct it"

"Get into it!"
"Don't be like Peter in last year's show!"

"Andy's not playing. He's dancing"

"Don't worry - Andy won't be there. He's dancing"

"They just changed the drill for you"
"Yeah, and I won't even be here because I'll be dancing"

"So Newhouse is out there setting up a basics block"
"Are you serious?"
"Yes"

"George Shut Up!"

"Yeah, it was hard playing the saxophone in a dress tonight" -Me
"Oh I know how that is" -Peter

"You blew out the candle! You blew out the candle of life! How dare you!.....You blew out my candle! You blew out MY candle of life! You know Katie, you're only blowing out my candle because you feels yours is inadequate!" -Tricia

"I wonder what the tempo is in here....I mean speed limit" -Me

"Talk about living in the shadow of your brother. 'Yeah, my brother is God. What are you gonna do" -Jeff C

"It's the little things in life that matter - like the first time you're able to parallel park on Market Street by yourself"
"It's a pink house on first street-you can't miss it"*later*"Okay, so it's a tan house on second street"

"And what happened to the Gospel?" -Mr. Bennett
"It spread. Like butter" -Ian

"Sultury. Like hot, but not outside" -Me

"Unbelieveable. My body. How could you not pick that?"

"So what, God is a great cosmic chicken in the sky? It says that He has us under His wing, so obviously He must be this great chicken. That's why you can't take everything literally" -Prof Paige

"Is John saying that the end times is going to look like some cheap Japanese horror film? Godilla meets Jesus? The angels said "you blockhead"."-Prof Paige

"Why don't be just go off somewhere else?" -Me

"If you're good, light a candle, sacrifice a chicken and move on"

"You know Richard Stoltzman (famous clarinetist)? His teacher used to say to him 'Remember Richard, when you're sleeping, someone else is practicing'. Here at Houghton, that's probably true. We used to keep the music building open until midnight. Now it's open until 2 am" - Dr. King

*said in a German accent* "We will make you pass. We have ways of making people pass. We will send you to a....tutor....for some....tutoring. Yes, we have ways of making people pass." Dr. King

"I like all the stuff I can do with my face" - Kyle

"Now it's a free for all system. So if you want to practice in one of the rooms with the grand piano, go ahead. A pianist might kill you, but you can do it." -Dr. King

"This is a weird place. No, seriously, it's weird"

"The Jeffersonian Bible cut out any divinity. It made Jesus a Palestian Mr Rogers." Prof. Paige

"Have you ever seen a person in a electric chair? They've got their arms all strapped down and can't move them. That's how you have to play percussion" -"

The Jevoah's Witnesses say that they don't interpret the Bible. That's their interpretation" Prof. Paige

"We're going to pass the offering plate. And for those who don't give, the copperheads" - Prof. Paige

"It's the power of Jesus!!"

"I'm going to go spend some time with Jesus" - Kyle
"Okay, have fun" - Hannah
"Oh we will'
*later*
"Off in a corner with Jesus, eh?"
"Don't worry. We left room for the Holy Spirit."

"First you allow dancing, and then the next thing you know, they're running a brothel out of the basement of Roth!" -Hannah

"I mean, why do they kill themselves?"
"Well, they get like 70 virgins or something"
*later*
"Are we still talking about the virgins?" -Kyle
"Well, if you die, you'll actually just go to Roth" -Hannah

"You have 3 days to convince me not to put my Bob Barr sticker on my backpack" -Kyle

"I look like a liberal compared to most people here" - Me"All those clarinets, sitting in a semi-circle, playing transcriptions" - Dr. King

"So the football team let you be the waterboy, you're fourth string on the basketball team, and you've got a C in Spanish. But by golley you can play the flugelhorn!" - Dr. King

"Behold, the C Major chord!" -Dr. King

"One day you're going to wake up and say 'Seven Eleven Management!" - Dr. King

"I want to be the man in YOUR mirror" - Kyle

"She twinkles!" - Autumn
"You bet she does!" - Kyle

"Yeah, that happened to me last night" - Luke

Humpty Dumpty WASN’T an egg! He was just some ordinary guy who fell off a wall! – Hannah

Poetry was like rock music. –Dr. Paige

All who are thirsty, come to the Hebrew waters and you shall thirst no more – Dr. Paige

I bet you didn’t know Jesus was a rapper – Dr. Paige

We really don’t know what Selah meant. Maybe it meant ‘stand up and dance for 5 min’ – Dr. Paige

There are some of the Psalms that we never seem to use in public. You don’t go to a prayer meeting and say “God has really laid this Psalm on my heart – ‘Blessed are they who dash your babies heads against the rocks’” – Dr. Paige

Go ahead and leave for Chapel if you don’t want the new covenant – Dr. Paige

How do you tell a false prophet from a true one? Just listen to me – Dr. Paige

If you don’t take a day off, you might kill someone – Chapel Speaker

Wrong! You’re supposed to say 0 km because speeding is ILLEGAL! Now all you Canadian are condemned!

Just think – at a moments notice you’ll be able to talk about the Davidic kingdom – think how popular you’ll be at parties! – Dr. Paige

It’s like a rattlesnake that’s rattling at me and I’m poking it saying “I wonder what will happen if I poke it with a sharp object” – Monica (on Kyle)

When I’m leader of the free world who is going to believe you? – Kyle to Hannah

I don’t want to go back to school. It’s the best things that happened to me since sliced bread – Sarah Jane

You could say “Since I’ve gone to Houghton I’ve become a Wiccan” – Sarah Jane

Sabbath Night Live! Live from Jerusalem! – Dr. Paige

Monica, you’re basically the white Oprah -Hannah

Don’t bother doing well in school, 40% of you will get pregnant anyways before you graduate

Beware the man who dresses nice and says “oh baby I love you”. His words drip honey but his heart is black. – Dr. Paige

Have fun tonight. Remember tomorrow is reformation day. – Dr. Paige

I hate Microsoft. It would be terrific, except all the commands are in the wrong place – Dr. Casey

Premarital sex leads to premarital dancing -Dean Brittain

If your father is the head of the Taliban it’s going to be different

That grammar is too good. Let’s mess it up -Dr. Paige

Which is kinda like John at the end of his Gospel saying “psh that’s the best I can do” -Dr. Paige

The truthiness of the Gospels

Nice Praise. It was totally discreet. I totally didn’t notice you walk in. -Luke

I’m going with AD 30 because I feel like it. And I’m the professor – Dr Paige

John the Baptist got his head cut off by a dancing girl. See where dancing gets you. -Dr. Paige

Let’s let the MOTHER OF JESUS pray -Dr. Paige

Nobody says, hey I hear there’s a new theologian in town. Let’s go check him out! – Dr Paige

Stop it! The numbers are good! We’re 10 points above the Pharisees in the polls! - Dr. Paige

Moses is a good wild card - Luke

I like shrooms. Did I just say that out loud? - Luke

Casey dates

1,000 years is like a day to God, but not to Moses – Dr. Casey

Stew, where’s our music?? – Paul
It’s buffering! – Stew

Charging rhinos. Way to play the Africa card. – Hannah C

They say there’s a beech in our justice system. People have been hanging on it for years

If you don’t eat you’ll be around for a month or so and then you’ll be toast – why did I just use that?

We’re too high of status for French dressing

Bake someone happy

Who but a Jew would start a book with a genealogy - Dr. Paige

Some would say it’s better to burn the Torah than to teach it to women -Dr. Paige

Look at heaven. It looks like a chapel service that you scan into and never scan out of -Murph

Why are you children so ugly and your paintings so beautiful? I make my paintings by day and my children by night -Murph quoting a quote

Look at Batman. For most of the movie he stands around the bat cave looking confused -Murph

I watched it again last night on one of those illegally downloaded sites. This is being recorded, isn’t it? -Murph

My grandfather sang that A once. He died. -Luke

I’m so bad at making errors. -Amber

If you’re worried about your grade, I do accept Visa and MasterCard – Dr. Paige

Lucky will grade them. If he licks it, it’ll get an A. If he does something else, well…. –Dr Paige

Hi. I’m from the local church. I don’t usually step into the house of an unclean sinner like you. -Dr. Paige

We heard you went to the house of a Gentile. You think they would have caught him in a bar with a prostitute. -Dr. Paige

Nothing like blood sausage and eggs in the morning -Dr. Paige

Altar call: who would like to be persecuted for Jesus? -Dr. Paige

Be careful with caffeine – Dr. Casey

Stinkin flutes with the stinkin treble clef -Dr. Casey

Lentamente: mints made out of belly button lint -Dr. Casey

Mit kraft: with kraft cheese -Dr. Casey

What are you syllables going to be? -Dr. Casey
Horrific - Luke

Don’t say “crap” on a rest -Dr. Casey

They look like drunk, befuddled reindeer.

Rests are supposed to be part of the music, not spots for interjections – Dr. Casey

There’s a place for forgiveness. This isn’t it. – Dr. Casey

The book of James is like listening to your Grandpa talking – Dr. Paige

There was a shortage of Motel 6s in Ephesus – Dr. Paige

This is a weird place. We've had A violent crime - Dr. King

Yea, even verily -Dr. King

There's a platapus. There wasn't one before. Isn't that weird? - Dr. King

It's easily recognizable. Oh wait, the sun just rose. -Dr. King

We'll abandon this discussion. - Dr. King

It's just a mother bear of music -Dr. King

Hindemith Harp Sonata...now there's a thought -Dr. King

Oh wait! He betrays his prejudices! -Dr. King

It will give you tendonitis just to play through it -Dr. King

Are you going to compare Petersons to Perlman? -Dr. King
Yes - Luke

Nobody loves me Everybody hates me I'm gonna go eat worms -Dr. King

It's like a rock singer, except in the artistic way -Dr. King

From Dr. Sleeth's Lecture:
"I can't touch all of them"

"I felt bathed in it"

"If you were moving back and forth, it was fidgeting. If you were jumping and dancing, it was the Holy Spirit"

"Houghton is the 'Big-hearted, lovey-dovey school'"

"Something happens to community when you get together all the time!"

"I love the physical setting, closeness and proximity"
"I realized I'm not young or middle aged"

"It was really hard work and I wasn't enjoying it much"

"I thought about the pollution and the gas and the noise"

"She looked at me, I looked at her and we gave the cash to somebody else" 8D

"I took my tie off and gave it to her"

"Don't think you're getting an invitation to my house just because you gave me your tie"

"It's more important to share than to get what you want"

"Be generous until it hurts"

Ok, so let's put this on the board. "Er Ist Kalt". Directly translated from German, I'm saying that he is cold. What did I really say in German? I said he is gay.
Danny Kim - "Are you serious?"
Dr. Paige - "Do I look like I'm kidding?"

People lived in fear of the stars. In Genisis, the stars were just nightlights that God tossed off. He just dissed every religion of the Ancient Near East! - Dr. Paige

(Deuteronomy) There are no CareBears floating in the air, no rainbows, no music... you don't like it, but you love them. -Dr. Paige

Your crops don't grow, you have a small problem... you die. -Dr. Paige

Elijah's up on the mountain saying 'Your Baal ain't squat! It's not gonna rain, Neh nyeh neh!' -Dr. Paige

YOU JUST DIED! -Dr. Paige

(Amos 6:4) They sit there by their swimming pools, getting drunk and playing the harp like David did. 'Yeah, do that "I'm a Material Israelite!" That was a big hit back in 9th century BC!' -Dr. Paige

What is prophecy? A divine schedule for the end of the world? -Dr. Paige

(Jeremiah 20:8) They mock him on "Sabbath Night Live" in Jerusalem..

Jeremiah gives a report card for society: Justice, F- Caring for Poor, F. Religious, F. -Dr. Paige

(Amos) The rich get wealthy and the poor get the shaft. Thank GOD it's not like that anymore! -Dr. Paige

The Stones are their own tribute band -Dr. King

The fiddleonia -Dr. King

Let's leave the fall out for a second *poof* no fall! -Dr. King

I don't like Bach vocal music *gasp* -Dr. King

I made the mistake of watching Psycho when I was a freshman in college. I still haven't gotten over it. I watched it from under the dashboard (drive-in movie) -Dr. King

I know I don't care if I like rap or not -Dr. King

If you watch the sunrise....if you get up that early.... -Dr. King

Bach spent his time teaching 7th grade Latin. He was a junior high teacher! -Dr. King

There will always be princes. There will only be one Beethoven.

Some of you had wonderful youth ministers. Some of you didn't! -Dr. King

"Yay life. Yay school. Yay caffeine" - Connie

(Apples to Apples)
"Katie, I've got the perfect one for you..." -Luke
"Green card: hopeless. The winning card: girlfriends" -Me
"What?"
"I'm sorry - Luke had the perfect card!"

"So the first conversation of 2009 was about Luke's love life" -Me
"Or lack of a love life" -Luke
"That's pretty depressing" -Me
"Almost as bad as if we talked about yours! Oh!" - Luke

"Wow Peter - you just sounded like Kyle!" -Me
"That's it! I'm calling you Kyle if you're going to behave like that!" -Luke

"So life is like bowling. You can try to spin the ball, but it's really all out of your control anyways" -Luke
"And what's knocking down the pins?" -Mr. Foster
"Evangelisim!" -Luke

"So I think it already turned midnight" -My dad
"People keep sending me text messages" -Luke
"NO! It's not 2009 until the cuckoo bird says so! That's why I come every year!" -Giuseppe

"It's not a waltz! It's in 4/4 time!" -Me
"Katie - sh!" -Luke
"How do you know? It could be in 6/8!" -Caleb
"I have the piano music!" -Me

"So I heard about your little dating situation" -Mr. Foster
"Uh, yeah. It's complicated" -Me

"I have no love life" -Luke
"I'm there for you Luke!" -Katie
"Katie - give up!" - Luke

"Wow. It took us 50 min into 2009 before we started bashing the WHS band!" -Me

"Yeah, well, I think assassins are good at killing people" -Luke
"Did you just seriously make that comparison?" -Me
"Yes" -Luke
"That's the best one I've ever heard!" -Me

"We have to have a movie night" -Me
"I was actually planning on breaking into your house and stealing your dvd. But that would work too" -Kayla

"My body. I have got to stop saying that" -Luke

"You know you're life is pretty lame when you start quoting past Apples to Apples games during the middle of a current game." -Me
"And that would be Katie's life" - Kayla