Dick Quote #802

Quote from Dick in The Physics of Being Dick

Dick: This is outrageous! I'm wise. I'm revered. And I work damn hard! Who do you think puts food on the table?
Sally: I put it there.
Tommy: I'm going with America's farmers.
Harry: There's food on the table?
Dick: Oh, now, stop it. If you people think it's so easy, why don't you get a job and work for a change? [exits]
Sally: I'm glad that was a question and not an order.
Dick: [o.s.] It's an order!
Harry: Well, I'm glad it's an order and not a direct order.
Dick: [o.s.] It's a direct order!
Sally: I'm glad it's a direct order-
Dick: [o.s.] Go get the want ads!

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Quote from Nina

Nina: Look, Sally, if you're gonna work for Dr. Albright, there are a couple of things you need to understand. One: she doesn't like to be corrected when she's wrong. And two: she's often wrong.
Sally: Wait, wait. So I shouldn't tell her her breath smells like a sock full of horseradish?
Nina: I didn't.

Quote from Sally

Sally: I found a mistake in your speech.
Mary: Oh. Okay. Let's hear it.
Sally: Okay. This is so great. Okay. Here on page 2, you say there aren't any Aymaran communities on the high plains, but Dirkson's survey says there are.
Mary: No, there aren't.
Sally: Yeah, but Dirkson says there are.
Mary: All right. Maybe there's one or two, but my point still stands.
Sally: No. Okay, but Dirkson says-
Mary: Forget Dirkson! Just go back there and concentrate on- on place names and spellings and things like that. Okay? [exits]
Sally: Man, who died and made her Dirkson?

Quote from Dick

Dick: Morning, class, I'm sorry I'm so late. A funny thing happened today. I learned that there is a, uh... A small group of people that doesn't find physics absolutely exhilarating. Isn't that hilarious? [silence] [students let out a slight chuckle] Exactly. So I was wondering, what drove you to take it?
Bug: Well, uh, it's required.
Pitman: And we want to graduate.
Dick: So that's all that brings you back to my class, a requirement? Not one of you yearns for a career in physics? [Leon raises his hand] Not one soul longs to make physics his lifework? [Leon waves his hand] Not one among you aspires to place physics--
Leon: Dr. Solomon.
Dick: Leon, please, tell me you have to pee.