In Memoriam - Quote Graveyard

[Elenna]

My best guy friend gave me The Lost Deep Thoughts for my birthday. Funniest thing I've ever read.

[hobbitlass]

Okay, my first two signatures.....

1. And they lived happily ever after....at least for a day.
I say that after reading a story to my young girls, so they know realty is not always like that.

2."...'cause it's easier to try than to prove it can't be done".

From a Moody Blues song, "Blue World"

[Tigerlily Gamgee]

I realize that I don't change mine very often. I've changed quotes once & I've never changed my avatar (I like the little serving lass).
Here's my ex-quote:

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story". ~John Barth~

[Nevfeniel]

For a while, I had:
Night has brought to those who sleep/Only dreams they cannot keep/ I have legends in the deep/Paint the sky with stars
From, of course the wonderful Enya's Paint the Sky with Stars. I changed it now to a quote by the insecure, easily furiated, and extremely hilarious George Costanza from Seinfeld. (best TV show on Earth, by the way.)
I also have entered a doll contest for Miss Middle Earth, and my doll, Laurëloth Elhîth, is entered for Miss Mithlond. Please vote for her, if you think she is worthy.

[Bergil]

and I'll get a new signature in honor of the occasion. Besides, I don't think I ever asked him if I could quote him. So I'm going to stop using

". Get rid of the monkey and we might have an opportunity to test the mettle of the organ grinder and be better placed to assess what he has to offer."
-The Saucepan Man

in favor of

I support...something.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I lay to rest a quote by one of my all-time favourite authors...

"Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all of them contradictory!" (Georgette Heyer)

...to be replaced with one from current (re-)reading. I think it's very Downs appropriate!

[FeRaL sHaDoW]

well if i change my sig anytime soon i might aswell post it here.

Not all shadows are made from light...
some are made from darkness...

[Lhunardawen]

(That's a rather queer thing to do, resurrecting a graveyard.)

I lay down to rest this quote, which I got from Madeleine L'Engle's An Acceptable Time:

But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.

and replace it with something a little more appropriate for the start of the term.

[Orual]

"There goes the last DJ/Who plays what he wants to play/And says what he wants to say/...There goes your freedom of choice/There goes the last human voice/There goes the last DJ..."--Tom Petty

Rest in peace, my bulky sig. Great song, though, too bad it was banned from the radio.

~*~Orual~*~

[Cúdae]

"Not all who wander are lost."--JRR Tolkien

I live by that quote, but it was time for a change.

[Nevfeniel]

Wow, not many people have posted here lately. I am now putting to rest the quote that I mentioned just a few replies ago:
"I'm against all 'it's me's'. It's so self-absorbed and egotistical, like those hip musicians with their complicated shoes."
-George Costanza
I now have another Seinfeld quote down there, from what my brother says is the funniest episode ever. He nicknamed it "Man-Hands".

[ November 29, 2002: Message edited by: Nevfeniel ]

[Lostgaeriel]

Shortly before signatures longer than 2 lines were not allowed, I had added to more quotes to my sig to extend the meet & greet theme. So for a few days it looked like this:

Elen síla lúmenn’ omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.

"My mother told me to give a cheery greeting to everyone I meet. And to take a ring from a good lady if the occasion arose." - Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight retold by Katherine Paterson

ZAPHOD: Oh God...Ford. This is Trillian, hi, Trillian, this is my semi-cousin Ford, who shares three of the same mothers as me, hi. Trillian, is this sort of thing going to happen every time we use the Infinite Improbability Drive?
TRILLIAN: Very probably I'm afraid.
ZAPHOD: Zaphod Beeblebrox, this is a very large drink. Hi.

P.S. My avatar is Parzival/Parsifal/Peredur/Perceval in honour of Viggo Mortensen's publishing company.

[ November 29, 2002: Message edited by: Lostgaeriel ]

[Amanaduial the archer]

Ive changed mine about 3 times, but my favourite is;

Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day.
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life!

from Jingo by Terry Pratchett.

Im reading Romeo and Juliet at the moment, thus I have my current sig.

[Susan Delgado]

I am changing from:

"Near and far, far and near. They are within sight of your lady's eyes, but almost out of reach of her memory. They are coming closer, and they are going away."

"A cat can appreciate valiant absurdity."

-- The Last Unicorn

[vanwalossien]

Here's some of mine:

"Charming man" said Arthur. "I wish I had a daughter so I could stop her from marrying him." "There's no need", Ford replied. "They have about as much sex appeal as a car crash"

D. Adams' "The Ultimate Hitch-hiker's Guide"

Smart is sexy

Actually Jennifer Aniston said that..

This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.

Ah, Adams again..

[ December 04, 2002: Message edited by: vanwalossien ]

[Lush]

Oh yeah, I suppose I can lay to rest my Thomas Mann quote here:

"For you know that we poets cannot walk the way of beauty without Eros as our companion and guide."

It's self-explanatory, if you know me at all, and know who Eros is. This is the quote I use to justify almost all the "youthful indescretions" in the world. Try it on your mother next time you come home after dawn.

[HerenIstarion]

your sigs are always so sad (and ven depressive sometimes), Squatter...

[Lush]

Squatter makes up for it by being a cutie.

[HerenIstarion]

Surely you're not going to tell me in all honesty that you of all people need a therapist. I do hope that you mean a drinking companion.

that'shim [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

How did you get that? I didn't post it. Clearly I'm being spied upon, and I'm most upset. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

This forum is themed around a graveyard. What else would my signatures be about but death? Actually I mainly choose them for their poetic qualities.

Squatter makes up for it by being a cutie.

It's very sweet of you to say so, old thing. You're not so bad to look at yourself.

[ December 14, 2002: Message edited by: Squatter of Amon Rudh ]

[Lush]

Heren is quoting the quote of the week off my homepage. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Anyway, back to business, eh?

[Diamond18]

My first sig was from the Wizard of Oz:

She's not just merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead.

I was reading a newspaper article which mentioned it, and I thought it fit perfectly for the dead theme on the Downs. But then I watch WoZ again recently and realized just how annoying, cloying and insipid the whole munchkin land is (it's certainly no Shire and those paint-by-number midgets are no Hobbits!)

Second sig, a quote by Faramir:

We look towards Númenor that was, and beyond to Elvenhome that is, and to that which is beyond Elvenhome and will ever be.

I may go back to that because I love it immensely, but I changed it for Christmas. I may as well post my current sig since it will be changing after Christmas:

Under that bed there runs a flood, the bells of Paradise I heard them ring.
The one half runs water the other runs blood, and I love my Lord Jesus above anything.

That is a verse from "Down in Yon Forest", a Christmas song.

[vanwalossien]

I've now changed my "Smart is sexy!" to a little TTT-movie hysteria.. Jennifer Aniston's motto is returning when I've seen TTT I suppose..

[dragoneyes]

I liked this quote, I didn't have it for long, maybe I'll change it back one day.

"I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating, I want to think!"
"Good heavens! At Breakfast?"

[Aylwen Dreamsong]

This one used to be mine as well:

I get enough exercise just pushing my luck

I think this was one of mine for a week or two [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] :

Quitting is easier, I know

I think I will change mine soon.

~Aylwen

[ April 04, 2003: Message edited by: Aylwen Dreamsong ]

[Bêthberry]

Memory trolls for submerged words. Here are the two quotations I have used at the BarrowDowns:

I went looking for the garden of my mother and lo! I found my own.

Never speak to women/Unless you speak of flowers
illustrate your garden/and walk with them past fountains
but never let them carry your secrets/they are lapses

The first I found on a stone plague in a garden centre; the second is from Jane Urquhart, Some Other Garden.

Bethberry

[ December 22, 2002: Message edited by: Bethberry ]

[vanwalossien]

I finally disposed of my Harry Potter quote

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.

Fitting words to live by both for Harry and me...

[Susan Delgado]

I am changing from,
"Where are you?" he cried again, both angry and afraid.
"Here!" said a voice, deep and cold, that seemed to come out of the ground. "I am waiting for you!"

[Aylwen Dreamsong]

Old:

I'd rather eat my soup with a fork. Or drive a cab in New York. Because to talk to you is harder work.

New:

The higher you build your barriers, the taller I become. The more you refuse to hear my voice, the louder I will sing.

I usually use original or less famous lyrics to songs. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

How long have you been using that one, Susan?

I went looking for the garden of my mother and lo! I found my own.

I always loved that one [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] ! And to think it just came from a garden stone...

Aylwen

[ January 15, 2003: Message edited by: Aylwen Dreamsong ]

[dragoneyes]

The more I looked at this sig, the more stupid it seemed, so I've decided to change it at last.

"I was glad to be rid of his company, for he stank" - Aragorn, so don't you go around saying Aragorn was dirty! He knew dirt when he smelt it!

[Aylwen Dreamsong]

I like your new one, Dragoneyes:

'Hm, tired? No, I am not tired. I do not easily get tired. And I do not sit down. I am not very, hm, bendable.' - Treebeard

I changed mine, a little. It is still "The higher you build your barriers, the taller I become. The more you refuse to hear my voice, the louder I will sing," except it is in Spanish.

I can't seem to make up my mind when it comes to sigs. I always change mine.

Aylwen

[Rimbaud]

This one lasted a long time. I was pleased that people enjoyed the link.


Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;

[Orual]

For a brief moment, this was mine:

"I mean, what's my business? My business is basically good."--Zackie Salmon

From Moisés Kaufman's The Laramie Project. A very, very good play. Everybody ought to read it.

[HerenIstarion]

bye for now:

...Не шалю, никого не трогаю, починяю примус...

[Diamond18]

This very short-lived sig was doomed to be brief, as I wrote it in a fey mood and was annoyed by it ever since:

Delight in the dance of the dying duck and weep,
Or may a thousand electric eels devour you in your sleep.

It's fun and quirky the first time around, but not when one has to read it every time she posts...

Rest In Peace.

[Carlas]

I have not had this quote long, but I love my new one!

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

Both of those quotations are absolutely brilliant. I especially like Macchiavelli there. Most apposite for some threads.

[HerenIstarion]

...One foot in front of the other, through leaves, over bridges...

this one lasted only for 2 weeks. Maybe it was too poetic for me [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] I'm going back to one before, now in English

[ February 24, 2003: Message edited by: HerenIstarion ]

[Lush]

Argh! Heren! The English translation of The Master and Margarita is not up to my standards at all. I resolve to translate and pubblish a new version sometime during my post-graduate work.

[HerenIstarion]

Argh! Heren!

Ты слышишь, прокуратор? -- тихо повторил первосвященник, -- неужели
ты скажешь мне, что все это, -- тут первосвященник поднял обе руки, и темный
капюшон свалился с головы Каифы, -- вызвал жалкий разбойник HerenIstarion?

a-a-a-a...

Единственно, что может спасти смертельно раненного [в сердце] H-I, --
проговорил HerenIstarion, -- это глоток бензина...

and yes, I'm not that much of a cat, you know....