Philosophy

Barman to another: I was looking forward to being miserable this weekend, but it seems to have turned out quite nicely.

http://www.violaraptor.co.uk/2011/06/quotebook-january-may-2011/

Overheard by: Raptor

Cashier: Birdseed, one lemon, a bottle of toilet bowl cleanser, and a package of bacon?
Stoned surfer dude: Yeah, man. It’s amazing how little you really need in life.

San Diego, California

Overheard by: Orion QP

40-something: No one really knows just what goes into running a chicken farm.

Hebron, Kentucky

Overheard by: Let's Keep It That Way

Asian Visual Studies professor: Why is the lotus flower significant in Buddhist art? The lotus comes from this muddy, icky swamp water, and then it pops up and blooms really big and it’s just beautiful, and you can’t believe something so beautiful could have come from this ugly place — it’s sort of like Liv Tyler, actually.

UCSC
Santa Cruz, California

Bearded guy: So, I've been really getting into, like, semicolons.

Toronto
Canadia

Amused girl: Okay, so the dog sits on the hay but it doesn’t want to eat the hay. Meanwhile, it pees on the hay and leaves its doggy smell on the hay… Now, the horse comes along and wants to eat the hay, but the hay smells of doggy piss so the horse can’t eat it… You, my dear, are the horse. Haha!
Annoyed girl: At least I’m not the piss.

Florida

Sororitard to business classmates: Well, I guess it depends whether you consider a dog a person or not…

Alabama

Overheard by: liz

Guy: Dude, I think my roommate.

Leiden University
The Netherlands

Overheard by: Billy the Bootlegger

Male student: My GPA doesn’t mean shit if I can’t wipe my own ass, you know?

http://overheardinphilly.blogspot.com/2007/05/when-youre-right-youre-right.html

Female student #1: I think Picasso painted them as nudes to liberate women; to show that they're human beings.
Female student #2: I think he just liked tits.

French Class
UMass, Amherst