Some Fun and Out-of-Context Quotes, Part XVIII

Let's just get right to it...

"I love Spanish!"
-Sra. Riggs on the Spanish word for 'piano'

"The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German."
-Mark Twain on separable verbs

"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth."
-Mark Twain on the German language

"I might be so efficient that I out-efficisized myself!"
-Mr. Giromini on grading labs

"Next to the spleen!"
-Gabe on where to put the appendix in a History Internal Assessment

"I never use first person."
-Mike

"I just strung together a bunch of German-sounding words."
-Amisha on speaking German

"If it's green and slimey it's biology, if it stinks it's chemistry, and if it doesn't work it's physics."
-Mr. IB on how to difFrenchiate demos in different sciences

"Religion. I gave it up for Lent."
-Julia on why she can't play Mao or eat chocolate

"Wait, did you just say you gave religion up for Lent?"
-Me on the above