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Post by Chris Strongheart on Dec 3, 2006 14:50:54 GMT -5
-think like the lyric thread-
Post your favorite quotes (from anything) here
my first:
Here the tragically beautiful and the beautifully tragic drift throught this night in a last quest for magic - Trans-Siberian Orchestra's A Lost Christmas Eve
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Post by Stella on Dec 3, 2006 15:12:46 GMT -5
From one of my all-time favorite books:
"Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own." - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
And a quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn:
"Don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing."
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Post by Chris Strongheart on Dec 3, 2006 15:17:28 GMT -5
Taken from the storyline of Trans-Siberian Orchestra's A Lost Christmas Eve (which has me just bawling like a baby)
"The father felt his entire world once again collapsing before his eyes as he stared at the son that he had abandoned for not being born in God's image. He now saw this son, consoling the inconsolable, healing the hopeless. This son so clearly reflecting the infinite compassion and mercy of God was obviously so much more in the image of God than himself, the great athlete, the intellectual, the successful businessman."
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Post by Stella on Dec 3, 2006 15:26:25 GMT -5
A quote from what is (in my opinion) quite possibly the most poignant novel ever:
"When a child first catches adults out - when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just - his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing." - John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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Post by Chris Strongheart on Dec 3, 2006 15:42:59 GMT -5
I must confess, I love the storyline for "A Lost Christmas Eve". So expect large amounts of quotage:
"Then his son noticed him standing there and from his task he looked up and then looked at the picture beside him and that one look, was enough. He recognized it was his father that was now standing there and gave him a smile of pure love and forgiveness and of the past, he did not care. He did not care where he had been. The whys, the wheres, the hows. He only cared that his father was there standing by him now. Then the father turned and walked across the room which by now had lost its distance and went to the nearest incubator and picked up a trembling infant. And with the child within his arms, he returned to his son and all the pain within his soul at that moment was undone. And he sat in the rocking chair beside him with the life he had retrieved and side-by-side together, they rocked all through that Christmas Eve."
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Post by Bloom on Dec 3, 2006 15:46:38 GMT -5
A quote from my favourite Christmas story:
"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more."
Hehe, do I even need to officially give the credit for that one? ;D
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Post by Chris Strongheart on Dec 3, 2006 15:53:45 GMT -5
I know there's a special edition for the animated version (and that's the only version I'll accept - I'm not a Jim Carey fan at all)
and a bit more quotage from TSO:
"Eventually there was hardly a person that the angel had missed and then at the very end he placed the father's name, also on that list. That anyone could reflect his Lord's Son was now the angel's view. All it took was to follow tthe simple words of His Son. 'To do unto others, as you would have other do unto you.' Then the Lord smiled at His angel and said, 'You have done more than your task. It's a gift that eyes rarely have that can see further than they are asked'."
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Post by Sky on Dec 9, 2006 20:11:51 GMT -5
As I'm currently watching "The Polar Express," here's a line that I think is so true  "Sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see." |
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Post by Chris Strongheart on Dec 9, 2006 20:14:46 GMT -5
love that quote from the Nutcracker Prince (with Kiefer Sutherland): Nutcracker: [holding open a door and bowing] Allow me, Clara. Clara: Oh, Nutcracker. Stop bowing. We're friends, aren't we. Nutcracker: Always. |
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Post by Chris Strongheart on Dec 19, 2006 21:31:57 GMT -5
from Gatchaman/Battle of the Planets/G-Force/Eagle Riders:
"I'm tired."
--Joe, after being shot in the chest, #103
"Whether I'm there or not, a dangerous situation is a dangerous situation. On the other hand, when there's a victory, I also win alone. Giving orders from behind a desk is different than actually fighting."
--Joe to Nambu, #98
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