In Memoriam - Quote Graveyard

[Bêthberry]

Adieu to one of the most ironic lines in the most hilarious literary hoax of the Twentieth Century:

It is necessary to understand that a poet may not exist. Ern Malley . The original Angry Penguins, too.

Replaced with a line from another genius of humour:

I once absentmindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing with a bottle of chili sauce. Terry Pratchett.

[Bêthberry]

This was was quickly scared away by the seasonal ghosties and ghoulies.

Originally Posted by Terry Pratchett

I once absentmindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant, and with great presence of mind they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.

[Mithadan]

I've had this sig for many years. Time to change it, at least temporarily.

"And tales and rumours arose along the shores of the sea concerning mariners and men forlorn upon the water who, by some fate or grace or favour of the Valar, had entered in upon the Straight Way and seen the face of the world sink below them..."

[Bêthberry]

Chris Van Allsburg provided an ominous seasonal offering:

She lowered the knife and it grew even brighter.

Another seasonal thought:

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love, remember; and there's pansies, that's for thoughts.

[Rimbaud]

Really excellent quotes recently, Bethberry.

I have altered the wording of mine, as reading a better translation of Art Poetique provided a better fit with the original.

[The Elf-warrior]

I am retiring my Animal Crackers quote for this:

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

"Killing the Barrow Wight won't solve anything!"

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by Rimbaud

Really excellent quotes recently, Bethberry.

Thanks, Rimsy. Yours ain't so bad either.

And now the season of remembrance has passed and so goes

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love, remember, and there's pansies, that's for thoughts.

To be replaced by more seasonal faire, for which I offer a fuller quotation here than the stingy signature limit allows.

Originally Posted by Dylan Thomas

It was on the afternoon of the day of Christmas Eve, and I was in Mrs. Prothero's garden, waiting for cats, with her son Jim. It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, although there were no reindeers. But there were cats. Patient, cold and callous, our hands wrapped in socks, we waited to snowball the cats. Sleek and long as jaguars and horrible-whiskered, spitting and snarling, they would slide and sidle over the white back-garden walls, and the lynx-eyed hunters, Jim and I, fur-capped and moccasined trappers from Hudson Bay, off Mumbles Road, would hurl our deadly snowballs at the green of their eyes. A Child's Christmas in Wales

There now! There's cats and Christmas and Canada all rolled into one.

[Bêthberry]

Well now, it appears I am single-handedly keeping this thread alive. Go me.

Adieu to the seasonal one from Dylan Thomas:

It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, although there were no reindeers. But there were cats. A Child's Christmas in Wales

And hello to something for the new year, which, for a change of pace, contains nothing about cats:

as intimate -- as fugitive
As Sunset on the snow --

[Estelyn Telcontar]

In anticipation of my fifth death day this coming week, I am laying my current signature to rest and going back to my very first one - to be seen in post #1 of this thread! (Actually, I can't use the first one in its entirety - the Gandalf/Pippin quote is too long, so I have taken only the second part.)

Tolkien predicted the Barrow-Downs forum: "...talks a reader might have with other people who have read the tale; they might lead to sharing of pleasure, or to debate on disagreements; and so lead even to a second reading."

This quote describes what I've found in my years on the Downs!

[The Might]

the first post...that's like an age ago

Anyway, I thought that my

He who arises in Might

signature was a little bit cheesy, so I chose a new, perhaps more fitting one, because I too ask myself what it is that makes people search so much for sheer information

[Elmo]

and Eru Illuvatar said from upon high - "Tee hee, isn't smiting fun"

Getting rid of this, a bit stale and it probably offended people... but I wonder if anyone ever clicked on the link

[Anguirel]

This must be the shortest tenure one of my signatures has ever had - about four hours - but farewell

The Americans eat cranberry sauce with their turkey at one of their jollifications - Independence Day or something. Quite good it is, too.

-W.M.W. Fowler

I shall revive that at some point, but necessity, and the poignant wit of Patrick Boyle, Earl of Glasgow, demands its replacement -

"As a hereditary peer, I have already been abolished once and I don't particularly want to be abolished again. Not quite yet anyway. It really is very unsettling."

[The Elf-warrior]

This clip is funny in a moronic way.

A sea monster ate my ice cream!

[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.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Lhunardawen

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

.

Ah but there is a wonderful little short story by Maupassant called "La Morte" in which this happens. Only four pages long but one of his best...

[Mithalwen]

Graceless, Pointless, Feckless and Aimless
Literature or just sheer flapdoodle ?

Stella Gibbons and the Starkadder cows farewell.....

[Lush]

Feanor: I made me a gemstones, and iz awsum. Ceiling Cats: We can has Silmarils? Feanor: No can has. All mine. Melkor: Oh hai. I can has Simarils. Ur hed asplode now. Kthxbai! Feanor: Iz Morgoth! Killeded my father!

This one was given to me by a friend.

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by Lush

This one was given to me by a friend.

Ah, Lush, sad to see the lolcats go. But 'we were old friends immediately" seems quite fitting.

Hail Tori and Neil. and the Dream King of course.

[Kuruharan]

I do hearby retire...

Bringing back some of my classic...me!

...which I got a few compliments on (thus the honor of being commemorated in this thread) in favor of my current offering.

Which in fact is a continuation of that very sentiment so my previous sig lives on, as you can see if you look at the very first post in this thread.

Brings a tear to me eye it does, placing this gem in my sig.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Ah, nostalgia, memories...

*hums tune from "Cats"

[Azaelia of Willowbottom]

I hereby retire my Werewolf sig ("Azaelia of Willowbottom: to live innocently for a few Days, make some bad voting decisions and be lynched by an angry, ignorant mob at the end--Cailin, TIG Dream Team Thread")

in favor of "Wherever I have been, I am back." Well-suited to me, as I'm back at the Downs after what feels like a long hiatus.

[Bêthberry]

Good bye for now to the Warrington Cat.

" 'I was the Cheshire Cat,' he replied with a slightly aggrieved air. 'But they moved the county boundaries, so technically speaking I'm now the "Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat", but it doesn't have the same ring to it.' "

And hello to another fiendishly clever beast.

Þä se wyrm onwoc, wroht wæs genïwad.

[Hakon]

I am not going to start a new thread for this so I will just post it here. I remember there being a quote on this site that ended in might have just as well been said by Faramir. I cannot seem to find that quote. Does anyone have the full quote? It was in someones signature.

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by Hakon

I am not going to start a new thread for this so I will just post it here. I remember there being a quote on this site that ended in might have just as well been said by Faramir. I cannot seem to find that quote. Does anyone have the full quote? It was in someones signature.

Not wanting to steal his thunder, I will simply say that it is Andsigil's sig. Yes, it's a good quote.

[Hakon]

Thank you for telling me. For some reason I thought it was Boro's sig and he had changed it.

[Lush]

A great Tori Amos lyric, that was the beginning of a beautiful friendship:

"If you need me, me and Neil will be hanging out with the Dream King."

[Bêthberry]

Time to put dragons to rest.

Þä se wyrm onwoc, wroht wæs genïwad.

For something a little more light-hearted:

Seriously old school.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

It is with great regret that I retire my wonderful Lay of Leithian quote, at least temporarily, but the temptation was irresistable.

For every minstrel hath his tune; and some are strong and some are soft,
and each would bear his song aloft, and each a little while be heard,
though rude the note, and light the word.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Well, I'm not usually so quick to change my signature that I double post here, but there's a first time for everything! Ring out the old:

You should have learned by now: Never be generous to Esty, NEVER! (from a post by Rune)

Ring in the new, which I post here including translation, as a service to all members who don't read German:

Fortsetzungen sind das Grab der Fantasie. Große Bücher bleiben stets Solitäre, deren Fortsetzung wir uns nur selber erfinden können. (Jörg Schiffmann in LN)
Sequels are the grave of imagination. Great books remain solitaires whose sequel we can only fabricate ourselves. (my translation)

This memorable statement was the conclusion of a newspaper's book review of Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide books.

[Lush]

I'm fickle with my signatures, but that doesn't mean I don't adore them all:

I want your love. And I want your revenge. I want your love. I don't wanna be friends.

GaGa 4-eva.

ETA: You were a genius for starting this thread in the first place, Esty. So many good quotes. So many memories.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Originally Posted by Lush

ETA: You were a genius for starting this thread in the first place, Esty. So many good quotes. So many memories.

Why thank you! Like any good graveyard, there's plenty of interesting reading to be had here.

[Pitchwife]

Retired for now, but bound to be back sooner or later (it's just too good):

Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men fight for what they meant under another name. - William Morris

Replaced for the moment by

Come not between the sheep and his pasture! Or he will not slay thee in turn. He will bear thee away on his horns to the pens of lamentation, where the tufts of thy head shall be nibbled, chewed and ruminated on in all eternity.

which came to me this afternoon as I was reconstructing the fence that keeps our two rams from my wife's flower-bed. (I know, it's rather silly...)

[Pitchwife]

Silly makes room for sillier. My last sig (see above) put through the Bad Translator (thanks to Eönwë):

In 1942 stupid! Or maybe oil and dead zone.

Incredible, but true.

[Kuruharan]

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "to retire this here sig..."

"The time has come,” the Walrus said, “to talk of many things:
Of shoes – and ships – and sealing-wax – of cabbages – and kings –
And why the sea is boiling hot – and whether balrogs have wings"

However, since it was the quote that began this hallowed thread, it shall ever remain in honor until The End.

And who knows, I may take it up again some day.

[Bêthberry]

Good-bye to the first extant poem in English.

Earth took of earth, earth with woe,
Earth other earth to the earth added;
Earth laid earth in an earthen grave.
Then had earth of earth enough earth.

Hello to some lines, the provenance of which shall remain known to those who attended Oxonmoot.

Wheelbarrows at five
Hearses at daybreak.

[mark12_30]

Changing my location. It's been a while since Adaron left. I hear storms...

hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-earth

And the quote goes with it:

...into the mist a small ship passed away, twinkling with lights.

[Mithalwen]

"...a support group for wolves who have suffered, wolves who have been tempered by the fire, bold, anxious, and dreamt-of wolves. It is not something sought, but a distinction thrust upon us. "

time for a change from my self-referential Fenris wolf signature.