In Memoriam - Quote Graveyard

[The Saucepan Man]

The dough-faced ploughboy coughed and hiccoughed his way through Loughborough.

A wonderful illustration of the complexities of pronunciation in the English language, courtesy of a letter in my daily newspaper.

But now for something completely different ...

[Mithalwen]

Brooke replaced Brooke....

so farewell then "Most individual and bewildering ghost" maybe I will be a bewildering ghost in my next death........ it was a hard call...


and while I am at it..I am ready for another change ....so I may as well add this now

"Frost, with a gesture, stays the waves that dance" ..

[Nuranar]

Farewell to thee, O plain-spoken sailor-man!

Name a shrub after me. Something prickly and hard to eradicate.

Super-points to whoever can identify the source for this next one. (It ain't gonna happen. )

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

~ Vincent Gilmore, Solicitor, in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White

Give me an Uber-point, for I have read thy blog.

I did love your old quote though. Nominated it for Best Sig myself!

Sophia

[Nuranar]

Cheater! Tricksy! False!



I should have added a proviso, Thou shalt keep thy mouth shut if thou readest mine blog.

I did love your old quote though. Nominated it for Best Sig myself!

I noticed that, I did. Thank you kindly, dear. Points on both counts! (Nothing stingy about me, no sir!)

Nuranar

P.S. It still wouldn't have happen without the blog!

[the phantom]

I am laying this quote to rest-

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

I like that quote. Can't remember where I heard it, though.

While floating around the Downs lately I've noticed several members ushering in the Valentine's Day season with romantic/flowery love-related sigs, and I decided that I, too, would honor the day with my signature.

So, during the next few days, my signature will display some of my favorite quotes about love.

[Ainaserkewen]

Yes, love is imagination isn't it.

I'm putting to rest my latest:
"You have the right to think whatever you want and I have the right to kill you for it."

It was shocking for the length of time I needed it to be. Plus it was a great tribute to my History Teacher. Thanks Mr. Rajotte, now I can answer more Jeopardy questions!

[Evisse the Blue]

"Tasty is as tasty does"
---Mom
Ah, the wisdom of the elders...(Mom's not that old though...but she's way smarter than me).

[Firefoot]

My newest old and buried sig:

"Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising/ I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking:/ Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!"

[Gil-Galad]

I pass my Monty Python quote for a newer, more personal one...

[the phantom]

I will lay aside this quote...

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

...and replace it with another entertaining Valentine's Day/love quote.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

For all that I liked my song lyrics, it is time to pay homage to my favorite cartoon.

So goodbye,

Life may be storm/should it be calm today/then be ready for tomorrow

and hello Dr. Orpheus.

Fea

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I'm laying aside my current Arwen quote:

...he saw the elven-light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days...

for a temporary P.D.Q. Bach spree.

[Mithalwen]

Prigioniera ho l’alma in pena,ma si bella è la catena, che non cerca liberà. Mesto, infermo, il cor sen’giace,ma il suo mal così gli piace,che bramar pace non sa.
Arrivederci, la catena is not so bella at the moment .....

[the phantom]

Now that Valentine's Day is past, it is time to get back to a more phantomish siggy. I lay this one to rest...

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

You are one lucky duck! Oh, it must be dreamy to have a costumed nemesis, chasing you, wringing his gloved hands in concern of your every move.

~Dr. Orpheus

This is only a temporary rest for my nemesis signature, but as a sign of respect...

[Gil-Galad]

Anti Orc-Slaying in the New Year

was a short-lived sig of mind...so much hatred towards orcs... well i added a new one of course

[Nuranar]

I hereby lay to rest this curiously discussion-provoking statement made by Vincent Gilmore, solicitor, in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White:

"No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman."

And now for another immortal morsel of wisdom, this time from the lips of that sober sage, Bertie Wooster.

[Imladris]

I hearby lay to rest both sig and SA avvie:

Dream is alive, I can run up the hills every night,
Go around and see another side of the tree
All I want is to be untamed and free, howl and (dream)

Lovely song that.

[Lhunardawen]

I have denied this quote its death for too long...now at last I allow it to rest.

An early Valentines' Day tribute:
Roses are red, violets are blue,
Some poems don't rhyme...and this is one of them.

[Evisse the Blue]

I will lay to rest this beautiful quote from a song by Joe Dassin:

"Si tu n'existais pas, / J'essaierais d'inventer l'amour,
Comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts / Naître les couleurs du jour. / Et qui n'en revient pas."

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

No longer needing to pay respects to the [un]dead, I bring back Dr. Orpheus. Although I must admit it's nice to know Crystal Heart's not dead.

[Ainaserkewen]

Rest in pieces...

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

Every syllable rings true if you think of the media and all those terrible reality shows out there.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

And now that my nice little bit of mischief went off without a hitch... here's another.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

And so I lay to rest

RIP Crystal Heart

Whoops... my bad.

In favor of... yet again... some mischief. Eventually I suppose I may once again pick a signature to last more than a few days. Although I do plan to soon launch a cartoon heya to David Bowie in the near future...

[Gil-Galad]

my shortest lived quote that i think no one noticed that all

"My Karma ran over my Dogma"


well i hope my next one is more notcied

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Seemingly unable to leave well enough alone, I, yet again, feel the need to change my signature. And so

RIP Inktomi Slurp Spider

is laid to rest, having earned the desired reaction. I shall now try for a wee bit of Monty Python-esque action.

[the phantom]

It is time to bury my current sig-

"Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong."

Yes, it is time for a new sig.

But wait... did I say new? Not new- but rather an old sig who's revivification was requested by a couple of my good friends here on the Downs.

[Evisse the Blue]

"nothing is lost, nothing whatever; memory accumulates treasures, stored-up secrets grow in darkness and dust, and one day a transient visitor at a lending library wants a book that has not once been asked for in twenty-two years."

By Vladimir Nabukov.

True and very beautifully said.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

If writers only wrote what they know, the world would be full of stupid books. ~A. Devitt

A nice line from a cool author.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

In this world you will have trouble.

I intended to keep it for quite a long time; unfortunately, I found a witty quote I couldn't resist using as a sig. So there.

[Nuranar]

"It just showed once again that half the world doesn’t know how the other three quarters lives."
Bertie Wooster

And now for a spot of Lord Peter...

[Evisse the Blue]

"The Paradox of Nightwish: It uses dark words but it makes them sound happy."

by ?
Heard (seen) on an IRC channel while ago. It would be silly if it weren't true.

EDIT: And because I hope everyone knows by now Enca made this wonderful avvie, I'll lay this bit to rest as well:

Thanks Encaitare, for the avatar

[Elennar Starfire]

Silent shadows never die.

But much-loved siggies do, sometimes.

[Lhunardawen]

I lay this sig to rest...

things are not just going to happen

and to commemorate my past four years of torture...

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

You mean you're actually graduating from high school?

[Mithalwen]

I have freaked Eomer long enough

Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Eomer of the Rohirrim.

So goodbye to Winston, if not the thought police ....

[Amanaduial the archer]

Farewell to my Song of Solomon signature...

Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night

*sigh* I do like that one, and it will probably re-emerge.

And behold the new siggy, an Easter themed on, from a passage about the mysterious Woman with the Alabaster Jar, Mary Magdalene. I just like this particular line...

The whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume

...and so it becomes my siggy.

[Gil-Galad]

i guess my last one is gone, even though only one person pmed me for good luck...

[HerenIstarion]

...You shouldn’t listen to all you hear...