In Memoriam - Quote Graveyard

[Lyra Greenleaf]

I've had too many! I should have been coming to this thread for months.

Let me see...there was one about Juan Pablo when he FINALLY won Grand Prix no.2, one about Mark Butcher's AMAZING First Test against Zimbabwe, Darius is gorgeous [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] , Orlando Bloom's greatest quotes, Paul McCartney 40 years ago, a quote from Yellow Submarine, various Wheel of Time quotes...far too many related to guys. And of course the classic (well to me anyway):

Oh sheep swallop! Sheep swallop and bloody buttered onions!

Oh and I hereby lay to rest

It may not be cool...Heck, it may not even be normal...But I'll stand up and admit it:
I LIKE WESTLIFE!
~Apologies to all with "Good Taste"- and Americans! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Not because I'm ashamed. I got bored!

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

The lips from which the kiss is wrought, has fallen words, will fall cold breath;
The womb from which the cry released, has suffered hurt, will suffer death.

I liked it, but it was time for a change. Soon will be time for another change, methinks [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img].

Sophia

[Edit: And yet another, discarded signature. I found this one too lighthearted for someone as thoroughly dead as I [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Behind every good man is a woman rolling her eyes

RIP my dear departed friend.]

[ June 08, 2003: Message edited by: Sophia the Thunder Mistress ]

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

My Matrix quotes are swiftly exchanging for... other Matrix quotes [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img], so I would like to bury the one I just hearlessly murdered:

Guns. Lots of Guns.

The rest of them have been left to live for now, but the gun quote has been "traded in" for a quote from the trailer for Matrix Revolutions.

~Menelien

[MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie]

Let's see...I'm not sure if I can remember the early signatures, but here are the ones I do:

For a fleeting moment, could one of the sleepers have seen him, they would have thought they beheld an old weary hobbit, shrunken by the years that had carried him far beyond his time, beyond friends and kin, and the fields and streams of youth, an old starved pitiable thing.

This is my favorite passage in all of LotR. I believe that this shows that Gollum actually would have given up the ring. I'll always believe that, RiP.

Who says I need a signature?

Ahh, that was a classic in my eyes, rest (peacefully) in peace.

The next sig I had was something that came off the top of my head. I got rid of it after a while because it looked stupider and stupider each time I saw it. I'm sort of glad I can't remember it.

"If I were elected mayor the first thing I would do is I'd kill the whole lot of you!"
"pssst, the mic is on"
"Ah know it's on!"

There's hilarious one from Grounds-keeper Willie, from The Simpsons, which is (in my opinion of course) the best show ever.

I might change mine again soon, but I'll let it live for a while. It deserves to.

[Arafangwen]

I have recently laid to rest a section of mine-

DO THE WAVE FOR BOROMIR THE DISCO KING!!!

(but I didn't stop)

RIP

[vanwalossien]

I decided to finally dispose of

To err is human but to foul things up completely requires a computer

a sig I actually had for a long time. RIP...

[Daewen]

Here's my old quote:

Dude look! I'm a wight now! Cool!

It's creepy and it's kooky, mysterious and spooky, there's just one thing to do-ee...the ring must be destroyed!

[QuickSlash]

And, now I retire my lovely Slipknot siggy.

I keep my scars from prying eyes, / Incapable of ever knowing why. / Somebody breathe, I've got to have an answer... (Diluted, Slipknot)

Why'm I so fascinated with / Bigger pictures, better things? / I don't care what you think, you'll never understand me!

Mmhmm. It's been replaced with the happier BNL song, Light Up My Room. But just for the Downs. ~_^ Other 'Knot songs pop up frequently on other boards.

[Durelin]

Good bye old WoT quote, hello new one! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

I really did like this one, though. Love those prophecies.

Oh, yeah, I still have my army recruitment link... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Let the arm of the Lord of the Dawn shelter us from the Dark and the sword of justice defend us. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

*sniff* Perhaps I'll resurrect it someday...

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

I just killed off my Matrix quotes... for a while. They'll be back. For now it's Douglas Adams for me... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

~Menelien

Edit: Nah. We now have a new dead:

"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving universes."

I love the quote, but I just felt like killing it... *curves hand protectively over axe* [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

~Menelien

[ June 24, 2003: Message edited by: GaladrieloftheOlden ]

[Yavanna228]

I haven't had this sig for an overly long time, but it's time to change. Farewell, sweet words!

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

Peace

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

I'd only had these ones for a short time, but the Moxy Fruvous one is part of one of my favourite songs:

All generalizations are false, including this one.
~Let's make Friday part of the weekend and give every new baby chocolate eclairs~ Moxy Fruvous

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

RIP:

You can run, but you can't hide. "What did I care if numbers of nameless and faceless people and creatures were slaughtered in the vague future, if in the here and now you were alive?"

The second quote was HP 5... once again, rest in peace. (Or rot in pieces?)

~Menelien

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

Time to lay to rest another old favorite...

“Well written words can reach far beyond the bounds of their own meaning, bringing visions, sounds, and sensations that one cannot wrap his arms about or fully comprehend; a ponderous state of awe and wonder.”

Thanks Phantom, for letting me borrow it. I'll surely ressurrect it sometime in the future. But for now, me and my Shelley are ok together [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img].

Sophia

[Nevfeniel]

My old sig featured a haunting melody that helped get our choir straight ones for the UIL competition:

The waters move so freely and know us by name. Their course is oft unseemly, whose choices show no shame. An ebb and flow sublime, erasing every line of all the images in time. Feel the waters running at your feet, taste the stream its flavor bittersweet. Water so warm, pure as of gold; yet when we touch turns cold.

Now I have an excerpt from a book I'm reading called The Cat with an Emerald Eye. I think it's a little witty. And "Purr of Power" is the phrase of the day!
I also got a pic to match. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ July 09, 2003: Message edited by: Nevfeniel ]

[*Varda*]

And now I lay this one to rest - it doesn't have any sort of sentimental value, just that I've had it for a very very long time.

Of all the Great Ones who dwell in this world the Elves hold Varda in most reverence and love. Elbereth they name her, and they call upon her name out of the shadows of Middle-earth, and uplift it in song at the rising of the waters.

Still, time for a change.

[Yavanna228]

Now I lay this one to rest. I liked it, it served me well, and is with its ancestors. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust...alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Ok, enough.

We laughed out loud til we cried/
And the tears were sweet/
Midnight melted to morning/
A moment faded to memory/
All these days just slip away through our fingers

Peace

[MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie]

"She says we don't really understand it, but there are many things we don't understand, and we just have to do the best we can with the knowledge we have." -Calvin
"Sharing with people, I'm always impressed by how they share back." -Bill Waterson

...I said I wasn't going to cry, I said I wasn't going to cry [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] ...

[img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] I think I'm going to change my avatar too.

[Cúdae]

I am, at long last, throwing off the tyranny of my ruling quote even as my forefathers did 227 years ago on the fourth of July!

Okay, so my quote wasn't exactly tyrannous. And I'm not exactly throwing it off, just trading it in for a new one by the same people and in the same song. Here it is anyway:

Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on. --from "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin

Hmm, maybe I'll follow the example of MLD and change my avatar too. Although, then I won't know it's me posting, so maybe not.

[Galadrie1]

I just remembered something that used to be in my signature before the 3-line limit was set:

Tolkien wrote about rings called Hibberts. These Hibberts were worn by dorky Felfs who glowed when Sting, the singer, was around.

It was a dumb inside joke, but I have to get it down while I remember it -- it's too funny to forget. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

maybe I'll follow the example of MLD and change my avatar too. Although, then I won't know it's me posting

I know exactly how you feel! That same thought has kept me from changing my signature, too (I always look for the word 'Galadriel' at the end to find my posts).

[Elennar Starfire]

Had this one for a while, and rather liked it, but all good things must pass...

Too much sanity is bad for your mental health.
Does this perfume make me smell fat?
I think, therefore I thtay out of the thwimming pool.

Also, another bit I had for a while:

**Smeagol's other precious**

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

"I’m a freak to the core!" I look at the rule book and say "I don’t think so." "The only thing worse than losing your mind... is finding it again."

And...

It's a good life- that's what I'm told. But everything, it all just feels the same... -GC

Now changed for my opinion on life. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

Swan song,
~Menelien

[Lëowen]

My siggy that I just killed:

Llamas are very dangerous, so if you see one where people are swimming, you shout: LOOK OUT! THERE ARE LLAMAS!!

From Monty Python, of course. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ July 09, 2003: Message edited by: Lëowen ]

[Faenaduial]

I'm finally retiring my sig (sniff, sniff)). It's the one I started with and I think I shall miss it. I'm replacing it with one of my favorite quotes.

But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while still they endure for eyes to see, are their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken forever do they pass into song.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Life is full of cactus, but why do I always sit in the prickles?

*audible sigh* RIP, my friend. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Swan song,
~Menelien

[Niluial]

Come to think of it… I actually have never changed my sig.. I don’t know why…

[Eressië Ailin]

RIP, all my old siggys:

'I liked white better.' ~Gandalf, to Saruman about his rainbow bathrobe.
Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."

'What's taters precious, eh, what's taters?''PO-TA-TOES!'
There are three kinds of people in this world: people who can count and people who can't.

I'm going to end this post with the newset addition to my sig, a quote from Faust.

Holy angel in Heaven blessed... My spirit longs with thee to rest!

Quite appropriate for a graveyard, no?

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I lay to rest my "hope"less signature quotes:

Ónen i-Estel Edain, ú-chebin estel anim.
I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept no hope for myself. (JRRT)
I attempt a hopeless healing / Bleed again with each new day. (David King)

I have chosen something a little more "hope"ful.

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Mine that I had for about an hour:

Pobodies Nerfect.

[Lyta_Underhill]

Alas, as amusing as my old sig was, it was too long, so I lay it to rest in both its forms, way too long and just too long, here:

Too long: Maedhros bent over his father's lifeless body and heard an echoing voice: "This elf will explode in 5...4…3…2…1…BOOM!" And behold, the Sons of Fëanor were covered in a black dust and their father spontaneously burst into flame and disappeared entirely!" --from "Of Fëanor, the Exploding Elf"

and Way too long: "Maedhros bent over the lifeless body of his father and heard a small, echoing voice from deep within Fëanor's chest, as if Mandos himself spoke from afar: "This elf will explode in 5...4…3…2…1…BOOM!" And behold, a great noise overcame the Sons of Fëanor, and they were covered in a black dust. They stood silent as their father spontaneously burst into flame and disappeared entirely!" --from the alternate Quenta Silmarillion, "Of Fëanor, the Exploding Elf"

And now for something completely different...

Cheers,
Lyta

[Nuranar]

I love this song from the movie Henry V, but I think I've had it quite long enough:

Non nobis, Domine, Domine, non nobis, Domine,
Sed nomini, sed nomini tuo da gloriam!

Now for a quote I ran across in my Bible reading two nights ago. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

I really liked this one; it was pretty cool. And quite appropriate for the Downs.

I fled, and cried out Death;
Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed
From all her caves, and back resounded Death.

[Beren87]

I lay to rest "Life is like an analogy" for my newest, which is from The Raven, o'course.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Doesn't somebody already have that quote in their sig? [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img]

Anyhow, I plan to kill off this sig within the day, or possibly tomorrow:

After this, the unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast this catastrophy, dance with me... -Jason Mraz

Swan song,
-Menelien

[ July 30, 2003: Message edited by: GaladrieloftheOlden ]

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Rot in pieces, love.

One cup to the dead already;
Hurrah for the next that dies!

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

I get tired of these things fast...

"Do you have anything you'd rather be doing than marching UP and DOWN the SQUARE?!?!?"

Why, Monty Python, of course!

[Galadrie1]

Oh, the horror! I've changed my signature. Here's my beloved year-and-a-half-old sig, which I'm sure I'll be returning to shortly:

"For this is what your folk would call magic, I believe; though I do not understand clearly what they mean; and they seem to use the same word of the deceits of the Enemy. But this, if you will, is the magic of Galadriel."

Rest well, my darling.

[Beren87]

Doesn't somebody already have that quote in their sig?

I hope not! I haven't seen it around anywhere.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Yes, somebody does. This took me ages to find, so be very grateful. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
In Dreams, we will meet again...
~*Eruwen*~

Eruwen's sig. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

Swan song,
-Menelien

[Beren87]

Well then, I guess you could say I lay it to rest.

Great minds think alike, I suppose. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]