quotes please... (or) ... whad' he saY?
There's a time when a man needs to fight and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny's lost, the ship has sailed and that only a fool will continue.
The truth is I've always been a fool.
-- Edward Bloom (Big Fish)
ahhh.. quotes...
i love em'...
been collectin' them since i wHas in grammer school... and have a few notebooks with several quotes over the years.. markers of my life.. what was goin' on and what inspired me at that time.. how i got through it..
'cause words.. well some work.. some do not.. and i like to remember some of those that did..
i would love to collect a few quotes here while i have the chance.. they can be from famous folks.. or your own.. (i especially like personal ones.. 'cause there is usually a story behind it... ;)
there is great talent here in this quest..
and im curious to find out what words or quotes have inspired you .. ?
reX boW...
delicious
digg"The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.” - John Cleese
... and it is a classic.
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
- Saint Augustine (354-430)
Steve
We can philosophize together until the words fail us.
"I imagine that as I practice I'll be able to get to a more zen center, a relaxed spot in between wordless panic and gratuitous verbosity."
- Chris de Ville (commenting on upcoming challenge for round 2 for npr quest)
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"so like butt-flinchin' poetry... reX.y conTinues to raNdom capp..." (see below)
Thanks for the new word today reXy. I can't use it for TFTD but it certainly is interesting.
Nods to brother of another mother.
Until Again, -W.
Hope y'all can join me for some music fun on my weekly show. www.wyce.org Fridays 3-6pm ET
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. -Henri Bergson
"It was probably less than 20 seconds but blimey"
- Komal Trivedi (waiting for the call-back from npr quest judges after being disconnected)
i love that word... 'bLimey'!.. heh!
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I assume there's either a story behind it or scant other ways to differentiate one's self in this digital world. like e.e. cummings with a random cap key stuck on her typewriter???
Deborah
Someone, for mentioning this. It is not trendy, it is not cool, it is not hip, or slick. It is illegible. And very irritating. I guess I'm an old fogie (at 37)...
Actually, it sometimes slows me down to digest what it being written, which is a good thing. I'm just curious about its origins.
Deborah
heh! .. heh! .. heh! .. (creepy laugh)...
i started that wHole random capp thing when i started writing poetry... i like to play with words.. and have learned that folks may or may not jiVe .. on that.. ;)
it's ok.. im different in that wHay and how i use my own words.. and eX.pressions... i know i put thought into my words.. and the translation can be varied...
but it's my style.. and like the wHay i speak.. it's who i am.. and stickin' with who i am and wHat i like is important when im eX.pressing myself..
apple computer liked it.. they hired me for my random capps.. well.. that and some other talents i had...
Think Different.
remember that? .. i worked for the K-12 Education Marketing department and we got soooooo much slack from educators about the bad grammer... and how it wasn't used right..
im not apple.. but i am myself.. and can relate to being different... and how people perceive it.. it buggs me when people take it wRong.. but .. for them.. in their realiTy... they are always
right.. heh! .. and so i have to reX. bow to them and continue doing what i do...
until the raNdom capp police come put me away..
.. and no.. i didnt raNdom capp when i worked for apple or any other place where i wHas being more pro.. (yah... very annyoin' i would say..)
and NOTE: i didn't recaPP.. anything in Komel's quote..
so like butt-flinchin' poetry... reX.y conTinues to raNdom capp...
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Funny you mention that - the bad grammar in their slogan annoys me every single time I see or hear it. It just grates. Chicken Out's "Eat Good" is even more cringifying.
I don't like blatant grammar crimes, but invented words - I'm all for that.
Deborah
cringifying is SO going into my vocabulary!
Jimmy Bear
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Ok... maybe it's not trendy, but it takes all the guesswork and thought out of personalizing a message:
with it, even Lincoln can spice up a message:
four score and s3ven years aGo our fatehrs borught froth on this c0nt1nent, a |\|ew naToon, cnoci3vde inl iberty, a|\|d ddeicated t othw prpoosition that a7l men r cre8d Eqau7.
Reminds me of the precomputer days when we used to work out words we could write using an upside down HP-12C and a string of numbers.... (I'm an older fogie, I guess)
Deborah
I love that the founding fathers brought froth. What about whipped cream, did they bring that too?
Deborah
What my son says in the morning when he wakes up and wants some company and the stuffed animals and action figures just won't do.
PS Rexy, congrats on being quotable. I've been quoting you in my head for days and days.
"Okay . . . like this really made me want to hang out with you and have a cocktail . . . heh! . . . not that you made me want to drink . . . but you have the voice and the words that would entertain anybody."
— reXy (commenting on Carrie Kaufman - public radio quest round one winner)
this is like winning.. right? .. heh!
reX. boW to carrie.. and all the eX.cellent quotes..
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"I feel....cold."
Hector Barbosa, POC, Curse of the Black Pearl
Speechguy
All hail Lord Ilpalazzo!
"If heartaches were commercials, we'd all be on TV."
-John Prine
"You know the Sheriff has his problems too, and he will surely take them out on you."
-Warren Zevon
"Working to get someone kicked off the bus to heaven disqualifies you for the open seat."
Seymour B. Moore
"Happiness is the best revenge!"
Steve
I’ve come to see that the ultimate source of all human anguish is that we are finite beings sentient of infinity.
"wHether you think you can or caN't...
either wHay.. you are right!"
-Henry Ford
is it really 2 hours till midnight?
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"To hear the fall of a tear in a final word."
Ferde Grofe
(from "constructive criticism" comment in another thread)
One of the most poetic, poignant, and pointed phrases I've run across this Quest.
Jim Barfuss
http://www.publicradioquest.com/user/2824
“The Hubble telescope now lets us view the distant past. If we turned it around, could we see into the future?" Seymour B. Moore
-- Audre Lorde, novelist, poet, essayist and activist; aka Gamba Adisa (woman: she who makes her meaning clear)
Natalie Davis
http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/1068
"they say go west young mann..
... so i headed east... "
- reX. booth - (when asked 'why did you move to chicago from california?')
you have something you say all the time? ..
what is YOUR special quote..?
im nervous..
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