Unquotable Quotes by L. Williams
(Compiled by His Students)

"It's soporific!"
" Anyone? Anyone?"
" For the geeks in chemistry..."
" I just go slow, it's my nature."
" Son of a gun, it works like a charm!"
" Well, if you're a mechanism hound..."
" Gee whiz!...Sorry that's the way I talk."
" Acid/base chemistry is way, way faster."
" Holy mackerel! Look at all that spinach!"
" It is on the board but somebody is erasing it."
" If you could do that, you would be really cool!"
" I like to keep my notes as cryptic as possible."
" Does this seem like too much arrow business?"
" I want to remind you - before we get too crazy!"
" You still have to know the whole wicked mechanism."
" The logic is really beauitful, if you're gross in that way."
" I'm sorry. I'm such an idiot. I'm getting ahead of myself."
"I know it sounds absurd, but I said it that way on purpose."
" Not everyone can hear his question, so I'm going to ignore it."
" I'm such a space-cadet...I have no idea where my notes went."
" What I say in the next few minutes might blow your mind away."
" You could just puzzle over it all day, and I invite you to do that."
" You can wander through chemistry like you wander through a good quality Swiss cheese."
" Do you guys mind me saying something? I know it makes no sense."
" ...Really, really cool--if you don't mind me saying cool in the classroom."
" Aldol reactions come in two flavors: Aldol Addition and Aldol Condensation."
" In the second case you might be able to discern that I haven't written everything on the board."
" There is something very important that I wanted to say...and I'll probably remember it in just a second."
" I have a bottle of sodium borohydride in my lab, because hey, any organic chemist who's worth anything has one."