“How long was I gone?”“Hundred and forty-seven days yesterday. Uh … hundred and forty-eight today. ‘Cept today doesn’t count, does it? How long was it for you … where you were?”“Longer.”
Buffy and Spike on Buffy’s return from what they thought was Hell, Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
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If you’ve read this blog for long enough you’ll know that there isn’t a quote I don’t love. (And if you haven’t read this blog for long and you’re just here because you heard I’m giving away a huge arse tv…. welcome.) Genre is irrelevant. I don’t discriminate between song lyrics, TV series, movies, books or people actually speaking In Real Life (the novelty!).
Quotes effect me. Even those that are deep fried in cheese and corn and pull at your heart stings like a Huggies commercial. And I admit that with much sheepishness- I am one of those people who feel all inspired by declarations of love, bravery, independence and sprit.
“My name is Merida, first born of this clan, and I choose to fight for my own hand in marriage!”From Pixar’s Brave. To be said with a thick Scottish accent, preferably while dressed like this.
The more obscure the quote, the harder I dig it. If you know what I mean when I say “Damn you, loch ness monster, you ain’t getting no tree fiddy!” or “He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy”, then we’d probably be good mates.
We know I love this one from The Crow. Jerry Maguire is the undisputed champion of repeatable movie quotes– it’s unfortunate that mentioning Tom Cruise has become a one way ticket to people thinking you might be a bit weird, because that’s somewhat dulled the movies appeal. Forget “You had me at hello”, or even “Show me the money!”, the best scene from Jerry McGuire takes much of its power from it’s inherent silence- “My favorite aunt is hearing impaired.”
“Who cares what she looks like? All she knows how to do is walk on her hands.”Bette Midler, shrunken, in Beaches.
I grew up feeding my post–punk, mid–grunge, pre–emo social self on movies like Clerks, Dogma (“You knew Christ?” “Knew him?! Brother owes me twelve bucks!!”) and Empire Records, (“What’s with today, today?”) which remains my undisputed favorite movie of all time (“Shock me, shock me, shock me with that deviant behavior”).
“Love… it’s a gift, Alex not an obligation.”From sappy mid–90′s rom com Fools Rush In, featuring that guy who we only know as Chandler Bing. (Or “Chanandler Bong”, as the case may be).
I think we see we’re I’m going with this, yes? You want to win this mind–blowingly awesome prize (we’ve come a long way from the Crappest GiveAway Ever) I want to know your favorite quote, be it from literature, song, stage or digital AV entertainment (that’s a fancy way of saying ‘TV and movies’).
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What exactly are we playing for? Well. It’s a 119cm LG cinema 3D Smart TV. When I say 3D, I mean 3D– you just hit the 3D button and whatever you happen to be watching pops out of the screen (glasses included, obviously). The smart remote works like a Wii controller- you wave it around to move the little arrow on the screen- and the TV connects to the Net and to your PC. You can check out the fun the kidlets and I had with it on YouTube.
I know. Coolest thing ever.
Here’s the fine print.
Each person is entitled to one entry. For an entry to be valid, you must leave a comment on this post with the details of your entry. That comment MUST be accompanied by a valid email address– all entries without an email address will be disqualified. (If you’re on Blogger, make sure you’re logged in then click this link to set your email address to reply-able.)
"text-align: left;">To enter, let me know your favorite quote. You can simply write the quote into the comment box if you wish– but that may not help you win.
Bonus consideration will be given for YouTube, audio or other links.
Super bonus consideration will be given to those who get creative– artwork, home made YouTube clips, photos, poetry, etc all make me smile. Feel free to upload your entry to whatever media (your own blog, Flickr, YouTube, BookFace, IG, wherever) you prefer and leave me a link with your comment so I can check it out.
Alternatively, if you don’t have a platform to upload to, feel free to email me your submission (in doing so you give permission for me to upload it to and promote it through the social media channels of my choosing).
The entry the amuses, confuses, bemuses or otherwise entertains me the most wins. I reserve the right to illicit the opinions of others while making this choice. My decision is final and no discussion or bitching of any kind will be entered into.
This one’s open to Australian residents only.
Entries open Friday 13th July and close midnight (AEST) on Friday 27th July- you’ve got two weeks to impress me.
Entries open Friday 13th July and close midnight (AEST) on Friday 27th July- you’ve got two weeks to impress me.
The winner will be announced via RRSAHM’s FaceBook page and Twitter feed, and probably in the newsletter as well. Winners will be emailed and have 48 hours to respond to that email with their postal address, or the prize will be redrawn.
And your time starts… now. Do try not to maim the other competitors in the rush, please.
“If you lived here, you’d be home now.”
Girl, Interrupted.
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'Every day, roll out of bed, and make a conscious decision to punch that day in the throat'.
AWESOME.
http://pinterest.com/pin/31454897367753145/
Some great quotes here. I am tied on a few..tough call here Lori.
Because I am really a grown up….
So…who's for snot flicking?
Submission to follow…. for you to do with as you will! eeks!!
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Kristie
This is way too long to be a quote, its more of an entire passage. But I can't whittle it down, as it all belongs together. The book takes my breath away, no matter how many times I read it…
“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days, you can hear their chorus rushing past: IwasabeautifulgirlPleasedon’tgoItoobelievemybodyismadeofglass-I’veneverlovedanyoneIthinkofmyselfasfunnyForgiveme….
There was a time when it wasn’t uncommon to use a piece of string to guide words that otherwise might falter on the way to their destinations. Shy people carried a little bunch of string in their pockets, but people considered loudmouths had no less need for it, since those used to being overheard by everyone were often at a loss for how to make themselves heard by someone. The physical distance between two people using a string was often small; sometimes the smaller the distance, the greater the need for the string.
The practice of attaching cups to the ends of string came much later. Some say it is related to the irrepressible urge to press shells to our ears, to hear the still-surviving echo of the world’s first expression. Others say it was started by a man who held the end of a string that was unraveled across the ocean by a girl who left for America.
When the world grew bigger, and there wasn’t enough string to keep the things people wanted to say from disappearing into the vastness, the telephone was invented.
Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person’s silence.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
anderson.prue@gmail.com
My favourite "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got" or my next best is a 'Dr Phil-ism' (in his southern accent) "the best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour"
http://www.celebritytweet.com/DrPhil/link/217694346483482624/
thecarrz@three.com.au
Posted my entry on my blog.. was actually something I had been meaning to do for awhile. Please excuse the amateur effort *blush*
http://www.saturdaymorningogremum.com/2012/07/what-it-means/
cinders@saturdaymorningogremum.com
My email address didn't pop up.
Its bek_y@internode.on.net if you will allow it, Lori.
A quote from my favourite movie. Enjoy!
Ferris: I do have a test today, that wasn't bullshit. It's on European socialism. I mean, really, what's the point? I'm not European. I don't plan on being European. So who gives a crap if they're socialists? They could be fascist anarchists, it still doesn't change the fact that I don't own a car.
[sings into shower head a verse from Wayne Newton's "Danke Schoen"]
Ferris: I recall Central Park in Fall, how you tore your dress, what a mess, I confess…
Always makes me laugh!
This was hard, but faced with so many quotes to choose one, I go for the amusing current Doctor Who (the geekiest Doctor ever):
Bow ties are cool.
I was going to post something beautiful, or meaningful. Was even toying with the idea of something poetic and profound.
And then something happened on Monday night that changed my view of the world and provided me with the gift of my new favourite quote. I give you this pearl of wisdom from Vernesa, on The Shire:
[referring to plastic surgery on her lips]: "My doctor won't let me go bigger. He said it was actually starting to hit the top of my nose."
Makes me weep.
nicole.assa@gmail.com
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"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
Miss Piggy
My favourite quote is a song lyric that I remember hearing when I was working in my first job and this song was on the radio all the time. One day I really listened to what he was saying and hearing this one particular line really tugged at the romantic in me. I still love this song even though it's 17 years old.
"When you can see your unborn children in her eyes, you know you really love a woman"
Here is the whole song, I'm sure you know it. I chose this particular clip because it has lots of Johnny Depp in it, who quite frankly must be the prettiest man that ever existed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SycitqX6lZ8&feature;=related
Love the Buffy quote by the way, here's another of Spike's gems, this time to Giles :"Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes? Cup of tea, cup of tea, almost got shagged, cup of tea?"
(Not part of my entry, just wanted to share!)
ckcampbell@optusnet.com.au
"Yippe ki yay mother f**ker"
My favourite movie of all time so it makes sense that I love when Bruce Willis gets all tough-nuts on the baddies
stephanielouise_85@yahoo.com.au
I've suffered many a bruise from having things hurled at my head, particularly by my Dad when he's watching something I've seen a bazillion times (ads, movies, etc) and I insist on reading along with every single line!
He thinks he hurts my feelings if he mutes the TV. Jokes on you, Old Man, I know the words and everyone sounds better with my shit fake accents!!
I have so many favourite quotes. I can't even pick a favourite. So, here's a list of my 'Top Ten off the Top of my Head!'
1. 'Now listen here you mullet. Why don't you just light your tampon, blow your box apart, because it's the only bang you're ever gonna get, sweetheart!' – 'Bernadette/Ralph in Priscilla: Queen of the Desert'
2. 'P.S. I am a fatso whale…' – 'Perry in Muriel's Wedding'
3. 'Yipee Kayay Motherf**ker!' – 'John McLaine in Die Hard or Tara in Washing Dishes/Feeding the Cat/Vacuuming'
4. 'That's right fool. Now I'm a flying, talking donkey. You might have seen a house fly, maybe even a super fly, but I bet you ain't never seen a DONKEY fly!' – 'Donkey in Shrek'
5. 'Stop looking at me Swan!' – 'Billy Madison in Billy Madison'
6. 'I still remember, getting my first candy from my Grandfather. It was Werther's Original, and I was 4. I'll never forget that first taste… Sweet and creaming and just plain good. I felt I was really somebody special. Now… I am the Grandfather, and what else would I give my little Grandson but my Werther's Original? He's somebody special, too!' – 'Creepy old man in the Werther's Original ad. circa 1990's'
(on the topic of creepy ad's, I keep getting flashbacks of Agro in the 'Hit me with a Samboy chip' ad. Not at all in my top 10, but felt it necessary to share, because sharing is caring!)
7. 'In the Criminal Justice System sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victim's Unit. These are their stories… *Chink Chink*' – 'Intro to Law & Order: S.V.U.' (Would it surprise you that I know them all? BUT S.V.U. is my favourite Law & Order)
8. 'Not. Happy. Jan!' – 'Yellow pages ad'
9. 'Suppose Nancy sees me coming out of the shower and tries to come onto me. I'm looking good. Got a luscious V of hair going through my chest pubes, down to my Ball 'Fro. She takes one look at me and goes 'I've had the Old Bull, now I want the Young Calf… And she grabs me by the wiener…' – 'Dale Doback in Step Brother's'
and because I'm sure you're sick of this comment already, number 10. Just to be annoying:
'My Mum gave me Milo, to go and go and go!'
'And my Mum gave me Milo, to go and go and go!'
'And my Mum gave me Milo, to go and go and go!'
'Slow burning energy, low GI, two glasses, 100% RDI of iron, calcium, vitamin C and B1, nutritious energy for everyone!'
'…And my Mum gave me MILO…'
'Ohhhh Nan!'
It pains me to admit I actually know all these off the top of my head. If only my brain could retain interesting information… *sighs*
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VhwsnuIDCFg
http://ausink.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/say-anything.jpg
"I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen"
Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) – Say Anything
….. And a million teenage hearts were broken!
Cassalou@hotmail.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InJ23OG7sn8
So many faves but it has to be Donna on West Wing
"Mrs. Morello I'm in the Oval Office with the President of the United States and it's because of you."
Mostly because we all have someone who helped us to become who we are, and saying thank you is good.
"I used to be snow white … then I drifted." – Mae West
In fact, a lot of Mae West quotes are awesome: http://www.mindspring.com/~hsstern/maewest/mw_quote.htm
Email is: laumeux@gmail.com
Words of wisdom for all!
" If you Sprinkle when you tinkle – please be neat and wipe the seat"
Butt cootie information can be found here
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One of my favourite quotes from Robert Frost…
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
Says it all really…whether it be good times or bad times, life doesn't pause..it keeps going..
"its never too late to be what you might have been" George Eliot
I have worn this engraved in a silver bangle around my wrist since my divorce over 10 years ago. It reminds me to keep fighting for the life I deserve just as much today as it did then.
not sure whether mine counts as a quote, or a proverb, but I love the story, and the quote itself
The story goes, that an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a saying, that would be true for any occasion, happy or sad. After much deliberation, they came back with :
"this too shall pass".
The elegance and simplicity, along with it's application to any moment in time, always manages to stop me in my tracks, and take my breath away, even if just for a moment.
Not in Oz so not entering technically, but anything from "Withnail and I"
"We've gone on holiday by mistake!!"
I think much of it is in the delivery also
"Mother is the name for god on the lips and hearts of all children" – Eric Draven – The Crow
Video here – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi_nAFEniSE
Adapted from a much older source – William Makepeace Thackeray
"We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at eachother for the last time……"
Jack kerouac
Doc.
Yep, it sure beats my kegel exerciser giveaway!
My favourite quote is 'Mum, there's bees on my poo' Courtesy of my son who had just done an alfresco poo.
Apart from taking me to a place I'd have preferred not to go, "dressed like this", I will think this one through & see what I can come up with. And for all of us visually impaired folks, the ones with specs, dry eyes, teary eyes, blind eyes, perhaps Lori could also investigate a speech button which we could press to hear your loverly self doing a voice over. Yes, yes, I know you vlog…
And now… returning you to your regular scheduled programming of giving away a massive TV…
I'm not in Oz, but I thought I'd share my favourite one anyway, just for fun
Anything savouring of quiet and tameness is maddengly abhorrent to me — not in actual life, for that I wish as placid as possible; but in thought, which is my more vivid life.
From the letters of H P Lovecraft, 1921
How's that for obscure?!
Ger and anon, I do apoligise if that reply came across as being rude, that wasn't my intention. I think I'll put that one down to 'blog over-protective-ness'.
Thanks for that info Carly, it's not something I'd considered from that POV before.
Leave this one with me, hey? I'll have a good hard think and get back to y'all.
And now… returning to our regular scheduled programming of giving away a massive TV…
Not cute or movie-catchy, but this quote has served my children well (and I don't know who deserves the credit), so here it is:
Do unto others as you would have done unto you".
Simple, no explanation needed.
My favourite quote is from the X-files, except I don't know the full context. I just love the phrase – "deceive, inveigle and obfuscate"
Just this week…
'She was bunching me mummy. I said no, but she kept bunching. So I stood up, and I bunched her back'.
My three year old daughter after being pulled out of a jumping castle.
In case it's not clear, bunching is punching. So true to her character.
I agree with the tiny print. Sure I can zoom on my ipad, but when I'm on my pc it's usually impossible to read. Tbh, I think your reply to anon was a bit rude. We are complimenting you wanting to read your words.
My favourite is a random quote from the Australian movie Proof starring Hugo weaving
Doctor: You've been blind all your life. What were you doing driving a car?
Martin: I forgot.
I love it and it reminds me of my misspent youth
"You're a real blue flame special aren't you son? Young dumb and full of cum. I know. What I don't know is how you got yourself assigned out here to Los Angeles with us. I mean hell, I guess we must have ourselves an asshole shortage, huh?"
http://youtu.be/s_eUpYTwdfE
And to summarise – so,eti,ex the zoom button just won't do. I am not sure how it works for people with adaptive software but I do know from conversations with visually Impaired people – and even people without confirmed disabilities – that sometimes it is hard to read blogs and other websites as you can't just zoom in with this software.
It'd be great if as many people as possible were able to read our blogs right?
Just a thought.
My comment was cut off
I meant to say …especially with my combined dry eyes.
Here are some website accessibility guidelines for your consideration – I have an Australian version of them somewhere but I am in Lomdon without resources soma google had to,do
http://www.web-accessibility.co.uk/
I actually agree width anon – and I will put my name to it.
It can detract from the writing with the small font – can you use brackets or a different colour – perhaps a shade lighter)?
I'm coming at it from an accessibility point of view – there are guidelines about screen based accessibility – amd I know our blogs are not true media but I think it's important to consider them. I also come at it from my studies in ecommerce/website design – good colours / font size for screen based text. Amd from a personal point of view – my eyesight is good but the Vaseline I use makes for blurry vision, especially with
Erm… anon… it's called 'zoom'…
Oh it's GOT to be Adam Sandler and it's GOT to be from The Wedding Singer and it's GOT to be in song format!!!!
"But it all was bullshit
It was a goddamn joke
And when I think of you Linda
I hope you f***ing choke!"
LOVE IT!!!! YouTube clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfrk2UdEOcQ&feature;=fvwrel
Seriously, I really don't want to sound like a bitch, but I guess it's going to – I just can't read your blog with the teensy tiny writing…I'm trying, I really am. It totally does my head in.
Sorry.
AH! Do you know how hard it is to pick merely ONE favourite quote? I have millions! (I love the Buffy one above, by the way – there are probably a million from that show that I adore (most involve Spike – "Is everyone here very stoned?") And Empire records! We obviously grew up in the same era, that movie was compulsory viewing for my generation. ("Well, Sinead O'Rebellion. Shock me shock me shock me with that deviant behavior.")
But, because I love writing and you do too, I thought I would submit my favourite writing quote, in animated gif form. It's here on my blog: http://woahmolly.com/2012/07/12/entry/
and you can catch me on email at mollywoah@gmail.com
Thanks for the awesome giveaway, I'm keeping fingers and toes crossed!
Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die! – The Princess Bride.
That entire movie is just one big quote and I cannot get enough of it!
Inconcievable!
What about the RUOS's?
Rodents of unusual size? I dont believe they exist.
Get back Witch!
I'm not a witch, I'm your wife!
I love it!! And no that's not my submission… What a great comp, do you think you could splice them together into one big clip? That would be great to watch!
The more I get to know you the more I like you Lori. I'm a huge fan of obscure lyrics and movie quotes.