"[referring to Ivy] She was definitely a turnoff, too overt. Look at her. Obviously, big problems. Most girls don't fly through the air with their skirt around their waist. Supergirl at least had the decency to wear tights; not that I read comics. I'm more the politically, environmentally correct feminist, poetry-reading type. You know, boring. I wonder if she posed for that painting. Great perm. Blond hair, obvious bleach job. Too bad it's six months old. I don't know how she does it. I get airsick on a seesaw. I guess she's sort of beautiful. I don't know. Those lips. Lips are supposed to be a perfect reflection of another part of a woman's anatomy. Not that I'm a lesbian. Well, maybe I am. No, definitely not. I told my mother I was, just for shock value. She said, "Fine, just as long as you don't smoke." Which, of course, is my main joy in life. Probably oral compensation. I don't think I was breast-fed. I can't imagine where she came from. None of the other kids at my school are that scangy. I really wish we could be friends."

"I don't need no lousy bus. I don't need no Mercedes. I'm in charge of my own fate."

"[to Sylvie Cooper] I ought to slap you good. You can't put 200 people out on a sidewalk just because you don't like an editorial! They're trying to get rid of me. Whose side are you on, anyway? Sylvie, you hurt me."

"Get the hell off the street!! Because the only people who are safe there are the drug dealers. They have more firepower than the police department."

"Tom Skerritt as Darryl Cooper"

"J. B. Quon as Another Kid"

"Catherine Hicks as Dean Elisabeth Graves"

"Greg Vaughan as Michael"

"Sara Gilbert as Sylvie Cooper"

"Drew Barrymore as Ivy"

"It’s impossible to explain happiness... It’s like pinning a sunbeam to paper."

"Happiness is when you are understood."

"A person needs a state of falling in love. With someone or something. Always. All the way. Otherwise, life is not interesting."

"In general, Russia was terribly unlucky with its tsars after Peter the Great. This is my personal opinion."

"Arkadi Listarov - Vova Levikov, pupil"

"Lyudmila Arkharova - Nadya Ogarysheva, pupil"

"My daughter gets C grades in your discipline systematically, this is surprising and alarming, because history is not mathematics, you don’t need to be a genius."

"Lyubov Sokolova - Levikova"

"Valeriy Zubarev - Genka Shestopal, pupil"

"Olga Ostroumova - Rita Cherkasova, pupil"

"Olga Zhiznyeva - Melnikov's Mother"

"Nadir Malishevsky - TV Show Host"

"Igor Starygin - Kostya Batishchev, pupil"

"Dalvin Shcherbakov - Borya Rudnitsky, formerly Melnikov's student"

"Next time we'll talk about the December armed uprising, and I hope you don't burn down the school before that."

"History is the science that makes a person a citizen!"

"Vyacheslav Tikhonov - Ilya Semyonovich Melnikov — History Teacher"

"Irina Pechernikova - Natalya Sergeevna Gorelova — English Language Teacher, formerly Melnikov's student"

"Roza Grigoryeva - Sveta Demidova, pupil"

"Have you ever thought about the great role of paper? We must bow to her boundless patience! You can write on it: [quoting Aleksandr Pushkin.] “The dark of night is lying on the Georgian hills,” or you can write a slander against your neighbor... You can rewrite your dissertation — to remove one name, one fact, to change the interpretation... If you have a paper, why not do it? It will endure everything! But the souls of us and our kids aren't made of paper, Kolya!.."

"Nina Menshikova - Svetlana Mikhailovna — Russian Language and Literature Teacher"

"Mikhail Zimin - Nikolai Borisovich — School Principal"

"Every now and then I hear: “Jaurès did not take into account”, “Hertzen failed”, “Tolstoy misunderstood”... As if a squad of losers were operating in history!"

"Yuri Chernov - Syromyatnikov, pupil"

"Hubie and the truth have a way of not gettin' along with each other."

"[to Muldaur] I'm a policeman, you're a politician, and you're not running for office here!"

"The last thing she ever expected was to become a hero."

"Dean Stockwell - Muldaur"

"Barry Tubb - Hubie"

"Martha Gehman - Ophelia"

"Yeardley Smith - Putter"

"Christian Slater - Binx"