"WebOodi is under update. We are out of business 29.9-1.10.2009."

WebOodi, the University of Vaasa's course and exam schedule and registration platform

"It's funny, 'cause it's true."

Karen Walkers (Megan Mullally) from Will and Grace

"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been."

Diane Arbus, US photographer (1923 - 1971)

found on a friend's blog

"Die Zeichen stehen auf Schwarz-Gelb"

Schlagzeile auf tagesschau.de

"Creativity takes courage."

Henri Matisse as found on FFFFOUND!

"Let me tell you something. There's not much of a difference between a stadium full of cheering fans and an angry crowd screaming "abuse" at you. They're both just making a lot of noise."

Sue (Jane Lynch) in Glee

"Palin Emerges in Asia with Speech to Investors"

Washington Post headline September 23, 2009

"You're not happy! You just think you're happy, because you feel happy."

Lily (Alyson Hannigan) on How I Met Your Mother

"Back at the Draper ranch, Betty gave her latest clinic in bad parenting:

Bobby: I'm bored.
Betty: Go bang your head against a wall.
Bobby: Mom.
Betty: Only boring people are bored."

From a post by John Swansburg about Mad Men on Slate's Talking Television

"Das Hilfe- und Supportcenter kann nicht gestartet werden. Starten Sie das Hilfe- und Supportcenter um das Problem zu lösen."

Windows XP Fehlermeldung

"Someday I'm going to be amazing."

Christopher on Project Runway S06e01

"It is September 9, 2009. Get it? That's 9/9/09 - sounds like a bunch of German Republicans."

Kate Clinton

"And how is it that students at Southern Maine Community College have unfettered access to long-fermented water-boiled bagels, when I have none?"

NYTimes article about the lively food scene in Portland

"Julia: Hej. Do you have wood filler?
Salesman: What is that?
Julia: It's similar to glue. I have a wooden surface that has holes in it and I want to fill them.
Salesman: Holes?
Julia: Yes. And I need something to fill them.
Salesman: We have wood over there.
Julia: Yes, but I need something to fill holes in wood.
Salesman: You can buy the wood and make holes in them...?!
Julia: No, I have wood and I have holes. But I don't want the holes!
Salesman: Ohhhhh.
Julia: Yes!"

a rather confusing conversation with a very nice salesman from Clas Ohlson

"Ich muß mein Leben verändern, alles verändern, und ich geh zum Friseur."

"Alles Wird Einfacher" Reinald Grebe

"Welcome to Tampere. Congratulations. Your flight arrived five minutes ahead of schedule."

Ryanair announcement

"[Diane] Rehm asked [Julia] Child how she managed to maintain a schedule that would tire a great many people. 'Well,' Child quipped, 'that's because I eat properly — red meat and gin.'"

celebrating 30 years of the Diane Rehm Show on Weekend Edition Saturday

"Das ist wie ein Arbeitstag."

meine Mutter als sie zusammen mit meinem Vater feststellte, dass ihr Besuch bei mir schon sieben Stunden andauerte.

"I know nothing about teenage girls, but teenage boys are like clam shells. They really are exactly like clam shells. They are tightly shut and occasionally, just occasionally, when you least expect it, those clam shells open and you see inside this very soft and beautiful and very vulnerable interior. Then the clam shell shuts tight again and you don’t see it and you don’t know when, if ever, it will open. But it will open at a very unexpected time and in a very unexpected way, and if you’re not there when it opens you might as well be on the moon."

Former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich in a 2001 speech

"I never will negotiate on television."

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) on TRMS

“It's not just that what happens within the lines of a basketball court is beautiful to watch, it's that the game's energy and swagger has always been the energy and swagger of inner-city America (with midwestern rurality lobbing in its presence from the perimeter).”

comment on a NYTimes article

"#yaygay"

from the top 10 conversation topics on twitter.com

"Rysskarna älskar sitt njet, det används i de mest skilda sammanhang, och ofta på ett sätt som gör utlänning fullständigt konfys."

"The Russians love their nyet. It's used in the most varied of contexts and often in a way that makes a foreigner completely confused."

Anna-Lena Laurén in Hufvudstadsbladet 7 September 2009

"I took physics and I did really well. I get the logistics of how a plane stays up in the air. But I don't understand it."

Mila Kunis talking about being afraid of flying on The Late Late Show

"Alla kallar mig för idiot,
och jag har ingenting emot."

"Everyone calls me an idiot, and I have nothing against that."

from the play Drottning K by Laura Ruohonen

"Ich weiß viel über Dreadlocks." - "Aha. Wie das?" - "Learning by ... having."

small talk from tonight's birthday party

"I have a funny story - I was trying to get from the kitchen to the living room..."

a friend at lunch

"Es muss alles mehr sein."

Wahlspruch der HSP aus dem Film Isch kandidiere

"B got underneath the dishwasher and he was pawing out through the crack out into the kitchen meowing trying to go forward. All he had to do to get out was to just back up and come out from underneath the sink, and he couldn't figure out how to do that. So I had to slowly, very, very slowly push the dishwasher in and very slowly let him back up and get out."

Temple Grandin as heard on Fresh Air

Tom Ridge on the US government's decision to invade Iraq: "I find it rather difficult to think that anybody in this country would believe that the people in charge would committ our blood and treasure to a cause if they didn't truly believe in their heart and their mind that it wasn't to protect America. [...] The final history hasn't been written. Because if some form of democracy is ultimately achieved in Iraq, and it's not going to look exactly like ours, the notion that we went in improperly will be obviously reversed. The history is yet to be written."

Rachel Maddow: "You can go back in time and sell the Americans on the idea that 4000 ought to lose their lives and we ought to lose those trillians of dollars for democracy in Iraq, you have a wilder imagination than I do. We were sold that war because of 9/11. We were sold that war because of the threat of weapons of mass destruction and they didn't have them and our government should have known it. And frankly, a lot of people believe that our government did know it and that it was a cynical decision."

The former homeland and security secretary and journalist Rachel Maddow talk about the "elephant in the room" and agree to disagree on The Rachel Maddow Show.