Title: GAME: Guess the quote
Description: savvy?
miztreated - January 28, 2005 11:58 AM (GMT)
New game! Tadah! Just because I'm bored and I want to stir up trouble. :D
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The basic premise is:
First person thinks of a quote from a book/movie/poem/song/etc.
Second person guesses the book/movie/poem/song/etc. and then thinks of one themselves.
And so on.
Easy enough?
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Guidelines:
1. Don't make it too easy to guess the quote. (eg: "I'm the king of the world!!!) Where's the fun in that?
2. Don't make it too hard to guess the quote either. (eg: A random sentence from a 1921 issue of Life magazine, taken from page 89, written by a Mr. John Smith.) Otherwise the game will just....grow stagnant.
3. If you personally feel that no one else will know where the quote is from, then give some sort of a hint, but don't....throw the answer away. Again, no fun.
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This game isn't only about having fun, but also about showing off your 'savviness' and general knowledge. And hey, if you feel that you don't have 'savviness', then this could be a good chance for all of us to broaden our horizons, to think outside the square we live in, to explore different options, to become exposed to other forms of life. Etc. etc.
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And so I start with:
| QUOTE |
| It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think he or she is wonderful. |
Taken from a novel by a popular English children's storyteller....
Marionette - January 28, 2005 12:29 PM (GMT)
Oooh! Oooh!! *jumps up and down* I know what it is, lol. I feel smart now. It's from Matilda by Roald Dahl!
| QUOTE |
| "I have said no such thing. I am only resolved to act in that manner which will, in my own opinion, constitue my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected to me |
Here's a hint, I give you three letters: BBC
miztreated - January 28, 2005 12:33 PM (GMT)
Oh I know this! It's Elizabeth Bennett to Lady Whats-her-name in Pride and Prejudice!!!!
| QUOTE |
| How would you morsels like to come to a little get together I'm having? |
This is so easy that it doesn't even need a hint.
ferrerofiedx89 - January 28, 2005 07:56 PM (GMT)
Bruce from finding nemo....thanks again carole hahaha
| QUOTE |
| When I finally got down off the radiator and went out to the hat-check room, I was crying and all. I don't know why, but I was. I guess it was because I was feeling so damn depressed and lonesome. Then, when I went out to the check room, I couldn't find my goddam check. |
carole - January 28, 2005 08:03 PM (GMT)
HOLDEN!! Main caracter in "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger :)
| QUOTE |
I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself. |
I dunno if there are any hints needed, tell me if so :)
Christian - January 28, 2005 08:40 PM (GMT)
that quote was in my English book: it's from D.H. Lawrence, an English poet :)
| QUOTE |
Full of darkness and danger they were.
And sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy?
How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened. |
not very difficult, I think.
carole - January 28, 2005 09:20 PM (GMT)
Samwise Gamgee, last scene of LOTR 2 :)
| QUOTE |
| I usually never forget faces, but in your case I'm glad to make an exception! |
miztreated - January 29, 2005 01:07 AM (GMT)
Groucho Marx!!! (I can't believe I remember that, it was in some book I read) God bless the Marx brothers. :D
| QUOTE |
Remember me when I am gone far away
Far away into the distant land
When you can no more hold me by the hand
Nor I half turn to go, yet turning to stay. |
Part of my favourite poem! Written by an English poet, her brother was a painter-poet.
zee - January 29, 2005 02:15 AM (GMT)
Oooh ooh its from Remember by Christina Rosetti..!!
:D
zee - January 29, 2005 02:36 AM (GMT)
oops forgot to leave a quote..
| QUOTE |
Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts, it drinks even of dead waters.
You are good when you are one with yourself.
Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. |
Its from a work by a very famous peot,born in Lebanon.
Scottie_theNerd - January 29, 2005 06:27 AM (GMT)
On Good & Evil by Kahlil Gibran.
| QUOTE |
| The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which was which. |
ferrerofiedx89 - January 29, 2005 08:28 AM (GMT)
Animal Farm by George Orwell
(wow...first one i knew out of here, carole helped me with the finding nemo one lol..i did see th movie though, bad memory i guess)
| QUOTE |
| While he admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher -- shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple green and lavender and faint orange with monograms of Indian blue. |
carole - January 29, 2005 12:33 PM (GMT)
Haha you're predictable Sharon :)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
| QUOTE |
My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night |
miztreated - January 29, 2005 12:42 PM (GMT)
Edna St Vincent Millay. She was that poet who lived in NYC or something, in like, a 6 feet square apartment. (exaggeration???)
| QUOTE |
| I just sat there thinking back on the year and I realised that I was emancipated long ago. It wasn't at one particular point either, it was at several. The hang-ups I once had were superseded, but not with other hang-ups as much as with a few sorrows. |
This will be much easier for the Aussies, from a cult Australian teenage novel.
Scottie_theNerd - January 29, 2005 12:42 PM (GMT)
Edna Saint Vincent Millay.
| QUOTE |
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one
enemy will meet him everywhere." |
juanqui.ferrero - January 29, 2005 02:52 PM (GMT)
I'm sad... this game's way too difficult for me !! I've not read enough in english... except if you quote from The Picture Of Dorian Gray, which I'm supposed to read in my English Speciality class... -_-
miztreated - January 30, 2005 04:10 AM (GMT)
Ali ibn-Abi-Talib from A Thousand Sayings.
Must admit, I had to look that one up. I'm not too flash on my non-European poets/philosophers. (See? You learn something new every day ^^)
| QUOTE |
We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology
Believe me when I say to you
I hope the russians love their children too |
Bloody mosquitoes and bees....so annoying with what they do....*hint hint*
juanqui.ferrero - January 30, 2005 09:45 AM (GMT)
*hands up* I know I know !!
It's a quote from Sting's song : Russians !! :D
| QUOTE |
You’re a teaser, you turn ’em on
Leave them burning and then you’re gone
Looking out for another, anyone will do
You’re in the mood for a dance
And when you get the chance... |
(It's for you Mandie :P)
miztreated - January 30, 2005 10:50 AM (GMT)
Hahahahahahahahhahahahaha!!!!
ABBA - Dancing Queen. (I'm sure I have no idea why you chose that Mailys!!!)
| QUOTE |
The summer sounds I love so well
I shall not hear again:
The merry children running free
and shouting through the lane;
The liquid flutes of little birds
and, melting in a dream,
The whisper of the swaying boughs,
the murmur of the stream. |
Another one of my favourite poems, simply because it's so poetic! HINT: It's by a fairly obscure poet, exclaiming over the joys and beauties of England.
ferrerofiedx89 - February 4, 2005 12:44 AM (GMT)
impossible!
ok, well not really.....but close to haha
miztreated - February 6, 2005 04:37 AM (GMT)
LOL, Okay, even I've forgotten the poet now. That's how obscure he is. ^^ I just know the poem itself.
Next one then:
| QUOTE |
| Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again |
Successful novel, made into a movie in 1940 (ish).
Booshie - February 7, 2005 02:57 AM (GMT)
Good one Amanda! Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.
Here's mine....
| QUOTE |
| "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents..." |
-From a popular novel published in 1868. This has also been made into a film.
miztreated - February 7, 2005 03:03 AM (GMT)
*jumps up and down* Ooooooh! It's Little Women! Jo said it. ^_^ I LOVED the Katharine Hepburn Little Women. (Wasn't so keen about the Winona Ryder Little Women but....) :P
| QUOTE |
INSULT
RETORT
COUNTER RETORT
QUESTIONING OF SEXUAL PREFERENCE
SUGGESTION TO SHUT THE F*CK UP |
Nerd stuff. :D Well Scottie? I think it's your turn to answer. :P
Scottie_theNerd - February 7, 2005 05:28 AM (GMT)
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One of bash.org's Top 100 quotes, involving Donut[AFK], Eurakarte and Miles_Prower (didn't even need to look that up)
| QUOTE |
| You are about to embark upon the great crusade...the eyes of the world are upon you...And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking. |
ferrerofiedx89 - February 8, 2005 01:26 AM (GMT)
ok i don't know that one
but
| QUOTE |
| Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. |
ahh, i love that author...i haven't read Rebecca acutually, but i read My Cousin Rachel by the same author a couple years ago and i really really liked it, great great book. emotionally captivating and suspenseful, i really felt for the characters. it's harder to find in book stores than Rebecca, but if u ever stumble upon it, i highly reccomend it! :)
Lloydsgurl - February 8, 2005 05:29 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE |
| You are about to embark upon the great crusade...the eyes of the world are upon you...And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking. |
Umm, quote from President George Bush sometime in '03?
| QUOTE |
| Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. |
I don't know if that is too easy. Brain's not functioning so well due to stress.
tennisrocks - February 8, 2005 05:38 AM (GMT)
The Princess Bride! Finally, something I know!
| QUOTE |
| You have enough burdens without Ashley Wilkes and his family on your hands. |
It's from a classic written in 1936.
Probably really easy, but I couldn't think of anything else.
Scottie_theNerd - February 8, 2005 06:49 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE |
| Umm, quote from President George Bush sometime in '03? |
Incorrect! =P
The quote was from the dispatch sent by General Dwight D. Eisenhower before D-Day, June 6th 1944, to the "Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force".
Lloydsgurl - February 8, 2005 02:44 PM (GMT)
ah, piddle. I am not so savvy. I knew it was some republican, I just missed on the year by like sixty years. Now I know why I don't have that sought after A in my AP US History class. I get Ike and W confussed!!
*hides face in shame*
miztreated - February 9, 2005 03:40 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (tennisrocks @ Feb 8 2005, 03:38 PM) |
| QUOTE | | You have enough burdens without Ashley Wilkes and his family on your hands. |
It's from a classic written in 1936.
|
Gone With the Wind! *jumps up and down* I LOVEEEEEE this book!!
A quote that has gone down in infamy perhaps?
carole - February 9, 2005 12:04 PM (GMT)
I think nobody knows who said that... Maybe Maria-Theresia (married Louis XIV)
I remember my history teacher mentionned the cake thing last year, I had forgotten the details so I must admit I had to look them up :unsure:
| QUOTE |
All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
All the lonely people, where do they all belong? |
Some music :whistle:
tennisrocks - February 9, 2005 02:38 PM (GMT)
I'm not sure what yours is Carole, but Amanda's was former queen of France Marie Antoinette who was married to Louis XIV, Maria-Theresia was the empress of Austria.
Christian - February 9, 2005 05:05 PM (GMT)
the Beatles - Eleanor Rigby :D
| QUOTE |
I want you to notice, when I`m not around
you're so fucking special, I wish I was special |
another song, one of my favourites.. :)
carole - February 9, 2005 05:25 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (tennisrocks @ Feb 9 2005, 03:38 PM) |
| I'm not sure what yours is Carole, but Amanda's was former queen of France Marie Antoinette who was married to Louis XIV, Maria-Theresia was the empress of Austria. |
This is what I found...
| QUOTE |
We're not entirely sure who said "Let them eat cake," but we can tell you that it wasn't Marie Antoinette. This flippant phrase about consuming pastry is commonly attributed to the frivolous queen in the days leading up to the French Revolution. Supposedly, she spoke these words upon hearing how the peasantry had no bread to eat. But biographers and historians have found no evidence that Marie uttered these words or anything like them.
(...)
A recent biographer claims that "Let them eat cake" was actually spoken by Marie-Therese, wife of France's Louis XIV, 100 years before Marie Antoinette, but we couldn't find anything online to corroborate this. Ultimately, we will probably never know who uttered this infamous phrase. |
tennisrocks - February 10, 2005 01:06 AM (GMT)
Interesting....hm..then I don't know! I don't see why Maria-Theresia would say that, but okay, maybe?
ferrerofiedx89 - February 10, 2005 06:46 AM (GMT)
oh my gosh....i dont' know why i'm admitting my stupidity to you all, but when I was first reading your posts i was thinking of Mother Theresa (oh...hope i spelled that right, man, i'm illiterate) instead of maria-theresia or whatever...but i know who she is, i learned about her not too too long ago.....does that make me stupid too?? arh, screw it.
I want you to notice, when I`m not around
you're so fucking special, I wish I was special
and that was from "creep" by radiohead
hmm...ok, this is like the easiest possible quote to get, like ever, but it's all i can think of haha
need i say more....don't think so haha
Lloydsgurl - February 10, 2005 07:21 AM (GMT)
:hug: Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at hello.....
I know I know this one -> Tom Cruise to Renee Zellwegger, Jerry MacGuire(sp?).
| QUOTE |
| Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. |
ferrerofiedx89 - February 12, 2005 08:55 AM (GMT)
i have no idea.....some character from a movie??
Booshie - February 13, 2005 07:06 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE |
| Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. |
Hard one!It seems like most of us are stumped, so can you give us a clue Jennifer?:)
Lloydsgurl - February 13, 2005 11:01 PM (GMT)
My clue: Think John Steinbeck
