In Memoriam - Quote Graveyard

[Yavanna228]

Though I know I'll never lose affection/ For people and things that went before/ I know I'll often stop and think about them/ But in my life I love you more.

Lovely quote, lovelier song...rest in peace. I'll probably resurrect this one soon enough.
Peace

[MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie]

Watch where you spit/I'd advise you wait until it's over/Then you got hit/And you shoulda known better/
And we die young/Faster we run/Down, down, down you're rollin'/Watch the blood float in the muddy sewer/
Take another hit/And bury your brother/And we die young/Faster we run/

That signature was from a song called We Die Young, by Alice in Chains. The song was about gang violence.

[Yavanna228]

I knew this one wouldn't last long...

And because I am of the people, I understand the people, I am sorrowful with their sorrow, I am hungry with their desire...
Padraic Pearse

Peace

[Yavanna228]

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. ~W.B. Yeats

Good grief...I just can't seem to keep a good sig anymore. Ah well, it's good in it's own right. Farewell.
Peace

[vanwalossien]

All know that he who would ride a dragon must risk a great burning

Wise words from Gwarn the loremaster... RIP
EDIT: Is it just me or does it take some time before the sig changes in your posts when you change it in your profile?

[ August 06, 2003: Message edited by: vanwalossien ]

[Eressië Ailin]

As far as I know, the sig changes in all of your old posts as soon as you make your first post with your new sig, if that makes any sense.

[Kaiserin]

I shall lay this one to rest...

but he knows the way that I take;
when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

[Evisse the Blue]

Here's one recently discarded:

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

I still like it but I felt the need for something more sing song.
Sadly, I cannot remember right now the exact wording of my first signature, so I can give it a proper burial. Sorry. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

[Airerûthiel]

RIP my old sig (which I've had since about Christmas, so nearly since I joined the Downs) *sniff*:

'Hope, compassion, and wisdom born of experience are...the mightiest weapons at hand.' - Viggo Mortensen

I would include my previous Pirates of the Caribbean quote but as I only had it for a day or two, I don't think I will.

[Lush]

This quote from "Orange County" had raised a couple of eyebrows:

~Do you want me to get naked and start the revolution?~

I am happy to report that the revolution is well on its way.

[Gorwingel]

Well I am now laying to rest my quote of...
"Someday your prince will come. Mine got lost, took a wrong turn, and is too stubborn to ask for directions."

Even though it perfectly discribes my current dating situation. It is time for it to go, it has been here for way too long. To this quote I say "Good Bye" [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

Alas! I must lay my old signature aside! Farewell, old sig!

"The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Christian work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision."
"But nobler is his spirit than the understanding of Sauron, for is he not of the children of Luthien?"

Now for something a little different....

[Rimbaud]

My namesake's devastating analysis of what constitutes poetry, and the echo of many later greats:

Je est un autre

I lay to rest, from restlessness, not dissatisfaction.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

My two latest discarded sigs:

Hold me when I'm scared/And love me when I'm gone... I wanna scream at the toppa my lungs!

Also, a Linin Par (sorry, a few letters aren't woring just now) quote which I can't remember at the moment.

Swan song,
-Menelien

[Yavanna228]

Good old Steven Wright.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
~Steven Wright

The newest one is from an Irish children's song. The translation is 'Seaweed from the yellow cliff/ Irish seaweed.'
Nice bit of randomness there. I just need to find one to stick with...I've not yet found anything that truly fits me to the point of being around for awhile, and I doubt this one will be either. Ah well. I suppose it's doomed.
Peace

[lindil]

on old and original one.

I would have kept it on for far longer I think, but the 3 line rule would have necessitated pruning which I did not think it could weather...

'The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night, and awaken early before dawn- exchanging lore and wisdom such as they possessed , so that they should not fall back into the mean and low estate of those , who never knew or more sadly still, had indeed rebelled against the Light.'

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

I am discarding already my newest sig...

I'm so tired of being here/Supressed by all my childish fears[...]These wounds won't seem to heal/This pain is just too real/There's too much that time cannot erase...
-Evanescence, My Immortal.

Lovely song, but I'm going to put in something from Interview With the Vampire instead...

Swan song,
-Menelien

[The Barrow-Wight]

GaladrielOfTheOlden,

This is not an admonishment, just a thought....

In the last six months you are in this thread no less than a dozen times. That's approximately once every two weeks. www.dictionary.com defines a signature as, among other things, A distinctive mark, characteristic, or sound indicating identity. You are apparently in the middle of an extended identity crisis. Though I and others I am sure, appreciate the materials you choose for your signatures, I think it might by beneficial for you to actually sit back and choose something for your signature that truly represents you as a whole, not just for today. That's not to say that a signature is supposed to represent a person's eternal mission statement, but I think that by turning it a phrase-of-the-week it becomes meaningless in the end.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Sorry, point taken...

Swan song,
-Menelien

[Elennar Starfire]

I kept this one for quite a while, but I decided it was time for a change so, goodbye to this lovely little quote.

Those who walk in darkness may be looking to the sun, blnded to the path their feet tread.

I may bring it back later, it is one of my favorite quotes, being one I made up myself.

Edit: And goodbye to this as well:

Eenie, meenie, Smeagol, catch him and don't let him fall.
Drop the ring, though he'll yell, and flee the fiery citadel.
Wave kings at Boromir the disco squid!

[ September 18, 2003: Message edited by: Elennar Starfire ]

[Diamond18]

Stop the presses, I've changed my sig. I think this has been my favorite one so far, it's a couple lines from two different songs by MB20. It was very "me", but after a few months I figured no one even reads an old sig anymore. So RIP.

I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell...
...I wish the real world would just stop hassling me. - Matchbox Twenty

The new Jane Austen one is very me too... not that I'm actually successful in my little fantasy, but hey! I can dream.

[ September 19, 2003: Message edited by: Diamond18 ]

[Lush]

Goodbye, Dr. Seuss:

But on you will go though the weather be foul. On you will go though your enemies prowl. On you will go though the Hakken-Kraks howl.

I imagine a Hakken-Krak to be a rich, white, frat-boy, btw. You know the type.

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Down comes the two part quote; up comes Great Big Sea!

A sharp tongue can slit its own throat.
It was only after their numbers dropped from 50 to 8 that the other dwarves began to suspect Hungry.

[Elennar Starfire]

I am now ditching my latest siggy:

Eenie, meenie, Elennar, jump and catch a falling star.
If it burns you, throw it far. Eenie, meenie, Elennar.
PM me if you want to know my theories on PotC! (warning: potential spoilers)

You can still ask about my theories, I just took it out of my siggy. (been getting buried in PMs lately)

[Aethelwine]

Well, it was about time I took another siggie. So it's RIP to this one:

"Its a bird, its a plane, its, hold up, wait, is that... whats Boromir doing up there!?"

And now I'm here, lets lay my very first siggie to rest to:

"Sometimes I think the surest sign of intelligent life out there is that none of it has tried to contact us."
- Calvin & Hobbes

*Lays down some roses* Rest in peace. I'll miss you! *sob*

Navaer! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Aethelwine.

[Faenaduial]

Time to retire one of my favorite quotes for a new quote I came across recently. Goodbye old sig:

My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night; but, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--it gives a lovely light! --Edna St. Vincent Millay

[Amarantha_Daisy]

'Tis sad, but I must get rid of my first siggy...

A toast to Sarumon's manicurist!

I wish it well. *tears* I loved you, almighty humorous sentence! But the time has come for a change. Oh the drama!

[Niluial]

I recently said goodbye to my beloved signature…

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J. R. R. Tolkien

But I felt it was time to say good bye and say hello to one that suits be better [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

It makes me giggle and it kind of tells you what person I am [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

~Niluial

[Aylwen Dreamsong]

Goodbye to my signature of several months:

For everyone and everything there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the Ninth Gate.

Time for a shorter, more appropriate sig, I think. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

-Aylwen

[Laivine]

As I really liked my previous signature, I felt it deserved to be written down somewhere, even though it didn't last long.

When everything is gone, there is nothing there to fear.

EDIT: You would think I'd learn to type soon...

[ October 06, 2003: Message edited by: Laivine ]

[Galadrie1]

I make my triumphant return to the posting world with a change of signatures. Here's my old one:

With all this Pirates of the Caribbean nonsense, I think it's time for a moment from Pirates of Penzance: "Pray observe the magnanimity they display to lace and dimity. Never was such opportunity to get married with impunity!" There, wasn't that fun?

I'm returning to my old, beloved Galadriel quote. Huzzah!

[Iarwain]

Sadly, I've forgotten lately that signatures should last more than a few days. Therefore, I won't list all the great quotes I've sorted through in the past few weeks, instead I'll say farewell to the one most pertinent to my life right now:

OUT, DAMNED SPOT!!!

Love that quote, [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
Iarwain

[Elfwine]

Ah! The Scottish Play! Not one of my favourites, but wonderful all the same. My friend played Lady Mac****, dear Erin. She was wonderful.

Anyway, to business. I changed mine long ago, perhaps before I even had a chance to post more than once.

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; words without thoughts, never to heaven go."

-King Claudius, William Shakespeare's Hamlet

My line! And a good one at that!

[vanwalossien]

Forstå det du, eller den som kan/Slik er det for møll, slik er det for mann/Tåpene ler, ignorantene snakker/Og livet gir mer til den som er vakker

I am finally and reluctlantly letting go of Nemi's slightly pessimistic poem about the unhappy moth *sniffs* RIP [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]
The new sig is a lot happier - those you who understand it might even be so Norwegian that you know where the quote comes from [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

[Finwe]

"He was strong in life. His spirit will find its way to the halls of your fathers."

I've decided to retire my old siggy, and pick up one in the "Eenie, meanie..." series.

(I really liked that scene with Gandalf and Theoden.)

[MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie]

"Yeah, it's fine/ we'll walk down the line/ leave our rain, a cold trade for warm sunshine/ you my friend/ I will defend/ and if we change, well I love you anyway."

This is from No Excuses, by Alice in Chains.

[ October 28, 2003: Message edited by: MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie ]

[Airerûthiel]

RIP my PotC quote (with slight changes):

Norrington: 'You are, without doubt, the worst pirate I have ever heard of.'
Jack: 'Yes, but you have heard of me.'

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

I'm going to abandon this one, goodbye

Han mathon ne nen
Han mathon ne chae
A han noston ned 'wilith

Oh well, I didn't like it anyway.

[Elfwine]

Another, another. I fear I'm too inpatient to keep one signature for more than one month. Ah well.

I shed a tear for:

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

Tolkien is a brilliant, brilliant man.

[ October 22, 2003: Message edited by: Elfwine ]

[Elennar Starfire]

I got tired of having my siggy sometimes be longer than my post, so I decided to use something much shorter. RIP!

Step out the front door like a ghost into a fog, where no one notices the contrast of white on white.
In between the moon and you, the angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.

The first few lines of one of my favorite songs.