Philosophy

College girl #1: Makeup is like a sock for your face: it covers it, but doesn't really protect it.
College girl #2: Wow… That's deep.

New Mexico

Philosophy student #1, about biomedical ethics: Yeah, we just don't know enough yet to go around screwing with genetic manipulation. Like, cloning people. That creeps me out.
Philosophy student #2: That sheep they cloned, Dolly. She died recently, didn't she? She was like five or six years old.
Philosophy student #1: Yeah. I don't think she lived very long.
Philosophy student #2: What's an average sheep lifespan?
Philosophy student #1, in defensive tone of voice: I don't know! I don't care about sheep!

Vancouver
Canadia

American woman to daughter, window shopping in front of Hermès: Luxury isn't for everyone.

Hermès
Paris
France

Guy at party: Well, I don't know if you can reduce Thoreau to pantheism…
Girl in Avatar face paint: Oh! Reduce!?

Berkeley, California

Student: What would Elvis say?
Professor: What would Plato say?
Student: What would Butler say?
Campbell: What would Foucault say?
Girl in back row: All I know is he broke a table.

University of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg, Virginia

Overheard by: elvis eavesdropper

Mom: I'll shoot you, then you'll shoot me, and we won't have to go anywhere.
Daughter: Mom…?
Mom: What? I'm just saying. If we shot each other we couldn't go anywhere, anyways.

Dressing Room in Mall
Pennsylvania

German instructor: Today is a bad day to ask me questions.
Several students at once: What's the meaning of life?

Montevallo, Alabama

20-something girl #1: Did you hear Dan and Jack are getting married?
20-something girl #2: But they're guys.
20-something girl #1: Yeah… guys who fell in love in college, have been together eight years, have never broken up once, and Dan proposed while they were in Paris.
20-something girl #2: Bitches! They stole my dream! See, this is why feminism sucks.

Silver Spring, Maryland

Soccer girl: God, it's like Aristotle took a shit on you!
Friend: I know, right?

Memorial University
St. John's, Newfoundland
Canadia

Overheard by: Mel

Marriage and family therapy professor: If you're living, shit's happening.

Chestnut Hill College
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania