What did you call me?
DDarren
I called you a lot of things, but I finished up with "autocratic hack."
S1 E18Chapter Eighteen
S1 E19Chapter Nineteen
DDaniel
(to Lauren) Do you ever fantasize about your students fantasizing about you?
Mr. Senate, I need a favor.
Is it sexual?
Why must you be depraved at every turn, Mr. Senate?
It's in my character.
S1 E20Chapter Twenty
(to Kevin Jackson) What does it say about how you think of yourself if you were to conclude the only reason I want you on the team is because of the color of your skin? Is that how you view yourself, Mr. Jackson? Are you going to assume the role of black victim every opportunity that comes your way? Every gain, every loss, will simply be the by-product of your ethnicity? Why don't you hustle off to your favorite tattoo parlor and have "woe" stamped onto your forehead. Let me tell you, Mr. Jackson, I have no use for victims on my team, no matter what they come in. You have a talent. It's that talent I'm trying to avail myself of. Forgive me for trying to recognize it in the face of your dogged determination not to.
I know teachers are not supposed to have fun, but it is not against the law for us to smile every so often.
(about Scott) He's in love.
Really?
Marie Ronning's mother. She came in to complain about her daughter sniffing bus fumes, now she's sniffing him.
S1 E21Chapter Twenty-One
Scott (to Harvey): Did you bury me?
Why would I do that, Scott?
You buried me.
Scott, I don't get many chances to get you the hell out of Winslow High. I didn't waste the opportunity.
S1 E22Chapter Twenty-Two
(reciting his graduation speech) The truth is, I don't have any big message. I don't even have any dreams. A lot of my classmates, the same thing, no dreams. I think one reason for that, the idea of becoming adults, it isn't something we look forward to. We look around, we see our parents, our coaches, our teachers.... Who'd want to be them? Our parents mainly think about money, our coaches mainly think about winning, and our teachers... most of you look half-dead every day. Don't get me wrong, I admire anybody who can go to a place day after day after day tryin' to teach a bunch of us. But a lot of you are disillusioned, you don't get enough respect. Your days are too long, your checks are too small, and you get a little more dead with each passing day. And we see that, making us just a little more afraid day by day. Afraid of the future. And we got no dreams. The truth is, today's kids are disadvantaged. We didn't get to grow up with any Martin Luther Kings or Bobby Kennedys. They didn't make any Jackie Robinsons in our generation. Today's heroes, they're not presidents. Proud parents today say any kid might grow up to be Alan Greenspan. And we got no dreams. Despite all this, I'm standing up here to say there are heroes among us. Sometimes they're parents, sometimes they're classmates, like Christine Banks or Lisa Grier. Sometimes they're teachers. With me, Harvey Lipschultz. He's a bigot, but he never let me forget every day that I could be something. He took an interest in me. And Mr. Senate? He doesn't know it but he saved my life. There's been a few times I thought about just driving over that center line, but then he started the suicide club and I was too proud to join it. But just knowin' that there were other kids out there struggling with some of the same stuff I was... it helped me get by. Mr. Harper, who's here fightin' for us every day, with eyes that never go dead. When I look at him, I want to be a principal. I guess my big message for today is, heroes are in the grass sometimes. They're not always on billboards and magazine covers. You've gotta look for 'em, even when they stand right in front of you. So, do that. Let's live our lives tryin' to do that. Spot 'em, point 'em out to your kids. Maybe there's dreams out there too. And now, I'll ask all of you to applaud because I'm finished.
IIsaac
I admit I was wrong.
In home-schooling your son?
IIsaac
In thinking you couldn't possibly become a bigger ass. It seems I've never been more mistaken.
Your son does not attend Winslow High. Accordingly, he may not participate in Friday's commencement proceedings.
IIsaac
I'll try not leave a footprint as I go over your head. I know how you are about your hair.
S2 E2Chapter Twenty-Four
Do you know who Dimitri Schostakovich is?
Scott, I've told you. I like Basketball. I don't really follow Hockey.
You're sick? Huh? You don't look sick to me.
DDebbie
So? You don't look nuts, but we both know better.
S2 E3Chapter Twenty-Five
Keep your voice down.
We're alone.
Louisa listens, the little snoop.
I heard that.
Can I ask you something? You can tell me if it's a tacky question, but I really gotta know.
Okay.
As a lawyer, how much money did you make?
That's a tacky question.
Well, that's not really a deterrent for me actually.
S2 E4Chapter Twenty-Six
I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. You know the way we tell every student you can be whatever you want to be if you set your mind to it? That's a big lie. Most kids have limits they're never gonna shake. Some are even stupid. But you? You can do what you want... be whatever you want. You're an incredible kid, Debbie. Now, you're crying, which confuses me.
DDebbie
No one's ever said that to me before.
S2 E5Chapter Twenty-Seven
Make love to me, Scott.
Well...
I want you to ravage me.
It's... um... a school night.
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