9 posts tagged “quotes”
I just got home from having to euthanize one of our dogs. It's a really terrible situation and I find that I simply can't write about it. But the reason for this post is to mark what the first thing I read when getting back was. I was checking out the wonderful site, Jezebel, when I came upon this article. At first, I thought it was terrible luck to come across that right after having to put Wrangler down. But I think it was actually the opposite. What it said really helped me deal with the situation. So, thanks Jezebel. And thanks, Wrangler; love you, babe.
Quote:
As I've said before, adopting a pet is perhaps the most masochistic thing we humans can do to ourselves. We develop affection, friendship, and unconditional love for our companion animals, all with the knowledge that we will be completely bereft and broken-hearted when we (inevitably) outlive them. But the upside of that total buzzkill (sorry) is that those of us who grew up alongside animals are lucky to have experienced those emotions; through them, we were given the tools to cope with love and loss, specifically, the ability to understand that just because loved ones are out of our lives, the impacts they made remain.
HAHAHA! How cute! (And an interesting article I read some time ago that this all reminds me of. This is certainly an example of Kawaii.)
Favorite Johnny Depp quote EVER! *child unvailed* "Oh."
And then there's Orlando's quote: *child unveiled* "Ha!"
As much as this may be one of the quintessential starter questions in a fandom, I'm starting with it anyway.
Who is your favorite character on Babylon 5?
Who is it that you just can't get enough of? Who is it that you will always sit down and watch if they're on T.V.? Do you perk up every time Delenn begins with, "A thousand years ago . . ."? Does your family look at you strangely when you adopt a a strange, thick accent and ask them how many Centauri it takes to screw in a lightbulb. Do you find yourself quoting G'kar's amazing insights? Do you know Babylon 5's mantra by heart and love the way Ivanova huffs, "Civilians!"? Do you grin every time you see Kosh say "Impudent" and throw Sheridan around without ever touching him?
Your choice. It doesn't have to be one of the main characters. If you can, tell us why they hold a special place in your heart.
My choice . . . This is a very difficult decision for me. Kosh, Sheridan, Delenn, Lennier, Londo, G'kar, Neroon, Marcus . . . They all hold special places in my heart. And they all have their special moments. However, I think my favorite character will have to be . . .
I love her spunk. I love her sense of humor. I love her when she's tough. I love her when she's hurting. She's just such a beautiful female character. And I'd find it a magnificent comment if people said that in some ways I was like her. Though a tragic character, as most of the characters were, she never looked to others to save her. That's very unusual in a female character. I just love her and I was very, very upset when she wasn't in season 5.
Here are a couple clips of her:
I really wish I had the clip of her fighting the shadow enhanced fleet clark had created. Who didn't feel chills when she said,
Who am I? I'm Susan Ivanova, Commander, daughter of Andrei and Sofie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is gonna kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart. I'm death incarnate and the last living thing that you're ever going to see. God sent me."
So, who is your favorite character of Babylon 5? Why?
Video: What was the first R-rated movie you saw (or were allowed to see)?
Submitted by Lisa.
Well, I'm going by "allowed to see" in theatre. When I was eleven, my father took me to see Starship Troopers. Now, people either LOVE this movie or HATE it. I'm one of those that love it. I think it was brilliant, fantastic, and all those adjectives. However, it also has some of the most graphic violence, nudity, and one sex scene. My father did not quite know the depth of what he was taking me to. I know that he was contemplating whether to take me out halfway through. I'm glad he didn't, as I love the movie. Mom still can go off on a rant about this.
"Have you lost your vulcan mind!"
"What were you thinking, man?!"
"My dear God!"
"She was like 6 years old! Alright, well, eleven isn't much better!"
SPOILERS -BATTLE CLIP
This is a great parody about rules for an evil overlord to remember. It'd be great fun to read a story about a character who uses it. Sort of like the humor story I am writing about a character using a handbook about zombies.
Here are some quotes:
One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation.
I will never employ any device with a digital countdown. If I find that such a device is absolutely unavoidable, I will set it to activate when the counter reaches 117 and the hero is just putting his plan into operation.
I will dress in bright and cheery colors, and so throw my enemies into confusion.
All bumbling conjurers, clumsy squires, no-talent bards, and cowardly thieves in the land will be preemptively put to death. My foes will surely give up and abandon their quest if they have no source of comic relief.
I won't require high-ranking female members of my organization to wear a stainless-steel bustier. Morale is better with a more casual dress-code. Similarly, outfits made entirely from black leather will be reserved for formal occasions.
If an advisor says to me "My liege, he is but one man. What can one man possibly do?", I will reply "This." and kill the advisor.
I will not turn into a snake. It never helps.
Today, I was checking an author's livejournal to see if she had updated any of her stories. She had just left a message for some other livejournal people. One of which, she spoke of reading her latest part of her story. I really hold this particular author in high esteem for different qualities of her writing. For a few things, I even read her work to see how I can improve myself in those areas. Mainly eroticism, handling of time, matured relationships (I swear to god, she's really the only author I've read who doesn't marry people off in the end and put 'happily ever after.' People get married like 1/4th of the way through in some of them. And them married is at least as interesting as them unmarried.), and happy endings. So, I was intrigued to see the work of this person that she read.
Since I wanted to read some of this other author's work, I went back in her livejournal archives to find the earliest post to her story. At the beginning of which, I found this post she made. It was entitled On The Senseless Killings of Female Characters . . . by otherwise brilliant authors.
It's a short but rather thought-provoking post. Go read it. Here are a few quotes:
This is what our various belief systems convince us of through narrative after compelling narrative: that victory comes at great expense. I do not doubt the veracity of this. I simply wonder why the collateral damage always has to be a woman.
Why do so-called 'pure' female love interests always have to die? Is the hero more of a man because the woman he loves is dead? Is that what passes for femininity/masculinity these days? Is that then implying that men can only be heroes without the support of a woman (or better yet, an equal partner), that the true hero rides alone, beholden to nothing save the beast that cleaved out his heart? Or that a woman's place is as a symbol (not even a concept or an idea), a ready sacrifice (insert your own Renaissance-definition of 'dying' joke here), an ephemeral presence that has no place in the action of the plot save in absentia?
It has occured to me, as a writer who enjoys slash fanfiction, that legions of women have now cut themselves out of the story entirely, preferring that the men interact with themselves on every level, be it social, combatative, romantic or sexual (of course, if you've dabbled in some Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick, you know this is but a modern innovation on a classic formula). Slash fanfic is another arena where the archetype of the questing male is embraced, save that this time the men are questing towards each other. Is this implying that the ultimate fulfillment for a man of valor is a mirror image of himself (narcissism as eroticism, anyone?)? That female authors have even been taught to marginalize their own representations in their own fictional narratives, because, ultimately, the phallus is all?
This intrigued me for many reasons. Firstly as an author, I'm always intrigued by the philosophy/reality of literature and writing. Another of which is because I read slash. But lots of the relationships portrayed in a great deal of slash, I do not agree with. Of course, that holds true for the great majority of all fanfiction created. Probably because most of the fanfiction published is the equivalent of doodling. But when slash relationships are created wrong it appears mainly because they are mostly idealized fantasies of women scared of female sexuality. But, even when the relationships being portrayed have a truth to them or are greater than that, I am worried by how almost 98% (gathered from Top Of My Head Statistics) of Slash fanfiction is written by women. There appears to be many reasons for this that I have seen. As I've said before, some appear to be afraid of female sexuality (namely their own). Others appear to not wish to see their fantasy beau in a relationship with a female character, even if they create her. Some seem almost to enjoy it in a sadistic way, wanting to see a man get pushed down and screwed. Then there's the thrill of the slightly taboo along with the safety of not being gay men themselves. So they can have this distanced dalliance with the forbidden or frowned upon. Safe rebellion . . . Etc. (And that's not even going into the fact that so much damn slash art portrays these men as looking very androgenous if not female.) But there are also people who write in it because they simply like the dynamic. Or they like exploring such characterizations. I'm most certainly NOT saying that slash is filled with sickos afraid of their own sexuality. Remember, I read and enjoy slash. Most of my favorite fanfictions that I'd recommend others to read is slash. This post is merely talking about some of the pitfalls of literature (which I group fanfiction into when talking generally) and the death or absense of female characters.
Definitely thought provoking. I'd say to read the original post. What do you think?
Some pics to show what I was talking about, when I said that a great deal of slash fan art portrays the men looking very androgenous if not female. Especially in their jawlines. Some of it has to do with anime. But that's a whole nother thing that's very much the same thing:
Or how about we go through some of the most popular movies or literature and count main female characters to main male characters. And that's not even with having to make the female character be THE main character. Just be one of them. Often, the female to male ratio is worse in things that have a main female character because they believe that the other main characters have to balance out the female presense. And if we dare write something with even equal representation of a female presense it's a chick flick or chick lit. That's why I so dislike the use of those words. It's demeaning, patronizing . . . It's not cute.
Really, they need to not allow this man to talk whenever possible.
Some of my favorites:
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that George Bush may or may not make.
--George w. Bush
I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
--George w. Bush
Bartlett, TN
08/18/2000
President Musharraf, he's still tight with us on the war against terror, and that's what I appreciate. He's a -- he understands that we've got to keep Al Qaeda on the run, and that by keeping him on the run, it's more likely we will bring him to justice.
--George w. Bush
Ruch, OR
08/22/2002
I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways.
--George w. Bush
Allentown, PA
09/05/2000
on his major league asshole remark
I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically.
--George w. Bush 03/29/2001
speaking at the Radio & Television Correspondents dinner
I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense.
--George w. Bush
Washington, DC
04/18/2006
Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better.
--George w. Bush 09/24/2001
in a press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien
If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.
--George w. Bush
Show us something you can't live without.
Submitted by awkwardidity.
I really like this quote:
Listen to the mustn'ts, child.
Listen to the don'ts.
Listen to the shouldn'ts,
the impossibles,
the won'ts.
Listen to the never haves,
then listen close to me
...
Anything can happen, child.
Anything can be.
By: Shel Silverstein
I was looking at quotes on this page. Started with looking for the great quote by the Babylon 5 character, Marcus Cole. His famous quote is: "Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe."
