Fannish post-quote quiz meme
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debetesse1) Me.
Buffy. Of course. The moment has been written about at length, and, even with all the issues I have with her, a great, iconic moment for Buffy.
2) Have you fallen on your head? Have you fallen down and hit your head on something hard?
Toby! from West Wing. As much of an ass as Sorkin is, his writing's amazing. I have a thought that this series (and, possibly, Sports Night) is gonna be sticking around in the same way as Dickens and Rowling. And there's so much in the ethos of the series that I love.
3) You should have died! Died rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!
Speaking of Rowling: Sirius Black, from Prisoner of Azkaban, my favorite book in the series (I think. 7 may ultimately win), because I love this theme: loyalty, betrayal, all that. Choices, Harry, choices.
4) Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.
Hamlet! To the skull of Yorick. Don't cry, emo prince of Denmark: be morbid about your mother! I got to rehearse this speech in college, and it was so much fun.
Also, it serves as my nod to all the quotes I couldn't come up with from Slings & Arrows, too.
5) Never doubted him. Never will.
Jack Harkness, Dr Who, about the Doctor. Now, Rose and The Doctor sit on my internal Board of Directors. Jack, though, I love Jack. I adore Jack's fidelity. I identify with a lot of Jack's morality. I empathize with Jack's alternating melancholy and joyfulness. In a Universe with more outsiders than that S.E. Hinton book, Jack's style is particularly compelling to me.
And if you spoil me for unaired-in-the-US-Who, I will cut you. Or possibly throw bananas at you.
6) This sort of behavior is demoralizing for the ordinary soldiers and citizens who are trying to lead normal, simple, unexceptional lives. I think things are difficult enough as it is without these emotional people rocking the boat.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. My father loved this movie when I was growing up, and used a paraphrase of this quote at me, a lot. See, the soldier in question just went above and beyond the call of duty, saving several of his fellow soldiers, and now his COs are having him hung (or was it shot?), for the reason given above. Which is sort of like getting in trouble for reading at school after you've finished your work. Only more so.
7) I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist. Just because you don't know what the right answer is, maybe there's even no way you could know what the right answer is, doesn't make your answer right or even okay. It's much simpler than that. It's just plain wrong.
House. From 3 Stories. To medical students. Not the only reason I love House, but his blunt rocks.
8) Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds.
The Guide. About how there's no life in the Universe. I love the logic of the series. Bistromathics! SEP field! Made of win.
9) Soft, yes. Weak, no.
Zhaan from Farscape. John's the one who's on the Board, but Zhaan gets point for possibly being the only grown-up in the series. And it's a good distinction.
10) God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, [ie., everybody.] to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time
Good Omens. Reading the His Dark Materials books, I appreciate the Gaiman & Pratchett take on God and all that. Hooray for comedy! Maybe it's just my thing for British humor, maybe it's the muddying of morality, maybe it's apocalyptifiction. I love this book.
I would pay money (in fact, the price of a movie ticket, plus a DVD) to see Fry and Laurie play Aziraphale and Crowley. Not gonna happen, though.
Buffy. Of course. The moment has been written about at length, and, even with all the issues I have with her, a great, iconic moment for Buffy.
2) Have you fallen on your head? Have you fallen down and hit your head on something hard?
Toby! from West Wing. As much of an ass as Sorkin is, his writing's amazing. I have a thought that this series (and, possibly, Sports Night) is gonna be sticking around in the same way as Dickens and Rowling. And there's so much in the ethos of the series that I love.
3) You should have died! Died rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!
Speaking of Rowling: Sirius Black, from Prisoner of Azkaban, my favorite book in the series (I think. 7 may ultimately win), because I love this theme: loyalty, betrayal, all that. Choices, Harry, choices.
4) Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.
Hamlet! To the skull of Yorick. Don't cry, emo prince of Denmark: be morbid about your mother! I got to rehearse this speech in college, and it was so much fun.
Also, it serves as my nod to all the quotes I couldn't come up with from Slings & Arrows, too.
5) Never doubted him. Never will.
Jack Harkness, Dr Who, about the Doctor. Now, Rose and The Doctor sit on my internal Board of Directors. Jack, though, I love Jack. I adore Jack's fidelity. I identify with a lot of Jack's morality. I empathize with Jack's alternating melancholy and joyfulness. In a Universe with more outsiders than that S.E. Hinton book, Jack's style is particularly compelling to me.
And if you spoil me for unaired-in-the-US-Who, I will cut you. Or possibly throw bananas at you.
6) This sort of behavior is demoralizing for the ordinary soldiers and citizens who are trying to lead normal, simple, unexceptional lives. I think things are difficult enough as it is without these emotional people rocking the boat.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. My father loved this movie when I was growing up, and used a paraphrase of this quote at me, a lot. See, the soldier in question just went above and beyond the call of duty, saving several of his fellow soldiers, and now his COs are having him hung (or was it shot?), for the reason given above. Which is sort of like getting in trouble for reading at school after you've finished your work. Only more so.
7) I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist. Just because you don't know what the right answer is, maybe there's even no way you could know what the right answer is, doesn't make your answer right or even okay. It's much simpler than that. It's just plain wrong.
House. From 3 Stories. To medical students. Not the only reason I love House, but his blunt rocks.
8) Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds.
The Guide. About how there's no life in the Universe. I love the logic of the series. Bistromathics! SEP field! Made of win.
9) Soft, yes. Weak, no.
Zhaan from Farscape. John's the one who's on the Board, but Zhaan gets point for possibly being the only grown-up in the series. And it's a good distinction.
10) God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, [ie., everybody.] to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time
Good Omens. Reading the His Dark Materials books, I appreciate the Gaiman & Pratchett take on God and all that. Hooray for comedy! Maybe it's just my thing for British humor, maybe it's the muddying of morality, maybe it's apocalyptifiction. I love this book.
I would pay money (in fact, the price of a movie ticket, plus a DVD) to see Fry and Laurie play Aziraphale and Crowley. Not gonna happen, though.
