- [Professor Burkhart is asking her students to suggest items to place in the school's time capsule]
- Dr. Imogene Burkhart: Tell me, Mr Gillis, what article would you choose? Now, think carefully, it isn't a choice to be made lightly. Try to name a single object that represents, in a sense, what we believe in, what we're struggling for.
- Dobie Gillis: [without heistation] A photograph. That's what I'd put in that capsule.
- Dr. Imogene Burkhart: A photograph? Of what?
- Dobie Gillis: Of a girl.
- Dr. Imogene Burkhart: I should have known. Any particular girl?
- Dobie Gillis: No, no, any girl, just so she's soft and round and creamy and lovable, because girls like that are the finest things our civilization's ever produced. And they're sure what I believe in, and struggle for.
- Dr. Imogene Burkhart: Constantly, Mr Gillis, constantly.