Senior Quote time!

[feppytweed]

Well, guys, its time for me to submit my senior quote.

Mustn't be distasteful, but your suggestions can be serious or lighthearted.

Thanks!

[Shodan]

Originally Posted by Socrates

I drank what?

Regards,
Shodan

[pravnik]

"I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this proposition, which this senior quote is too small to contain."

[rowrrbazzle]

Here's a previous thread.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...ad.php?t=56721

This was my contribution. It's by J. Michael Straczynski, from his excellent sf series "Babylon 5" - "The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."

[iluvurmom]

Mine was...

"Well behaved woman rarely make history" - not so appropriate if you're not a woman.

[Kythereia]

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music." --George Carlin

[CynicalGabe]

I submit:

"I'm glad I'm gone. This place sucked."

[Revenant Threshold]

Old joke, but....


Help help! I'm trapped in a yearbook factory!

[MovieMogul]

My senior quote was just a random sampling of Latin (or Latin-sounding) words arranged in a believable configuration. Then, whenever anyone asked what it meant, I could tell them whatever I wanted.

[enipla]

A bad analogy is like a pair of pants.

[Catalyst]

Mine was "We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams."

Also good: Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

[Ludy]

I think mine was something silly like

Remember that time at that place, yea, good times.
It was either that or
Always remember to never forget


Strangely enough I can’t remember which one it was :wally

[chaparralv8]

Go with some Latin:

"Cacare Necessit Sum" - "I need to take a cr*p" but don't tell them that, of course!

[Casey1505]

"www.goldenpalace.com"

[Ethilrist]

The battle is not always to the strong nor the race to the swift, but that's the way to bet it.

[Malodorous]

"The eagle may soar, but the weasel is never sucked into a jet engine"

-from the Deep Thoughts guy on SNL

[rowrrbazzle]

Originally Posted by Kythereia

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music." --George Carlin

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

[Hung Mung]

Here's two from Frank Herbert:
"It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult."

"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."

Or, you could twist up some Joseph Heller:
"I'm going to live forever or die trying."

[sjc]

I didn't have a senior quote of my own, but I believe I inspired several people who graduated after me to use quotes from beloved children's books. I say "believe" because I think I was the one who suggested the idea to one of them, but it may have been someone else.

The quotes were "He left a very hungry moose and a deserving porcupine" from Harold & the Purple Crayon and "Luckily he kept his wits about him--and his purple crayon" from the same book. A year after that my sister's quote was "I can't leave here until I find a monkey to take my place" -Carl Sandburg (from the Rutabaga stories).

[Beware of Doug]

I used this one. I'm into old music, what can I say.

"A song not for now you need not put away
A tune for the Was can be sung for Today
The notes of the Does-not will sound as the Does
Today you can sing for the Will-be that was."
–Walt (Pogo) Kelly

[Shirley Ujest]

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

[Amp]

Here was mine:

Veni, vidi, dormi

[sunstone]

"Arriba, arriba"

Senor Speedy Gonzales.


Oh.....

[gfloyd]

Being a dropout, I didn't get one, but every year at least three or four people quoted Billy Joel:

"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, because only the good die young."

But then again, I went to Catholic school.

[myskepticsight]

My friend has this on his Facebook in memorium of a friend. Don't know it's originator.

"Time is never wasted if you are wasting it with your friends."

[betenoir]

You could use the one banned for my yearbook. My friend, a big Buckaroo Banzai fan went with:


"Don't pull on that. You don't know what it's attached to."

The school administration refused it on the ground that it was obscene. It was nice to know my principal had a dirtier mind than a 17 year old boy.

(Ok, I know that's no help but it's my yearbook anacdote. {I went with an Iggy Pop quote myself}.)

[Malacandra]

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

[interface2x]

I stand by my favorite: What a short and completely normal trip it's been.

[athelas]

I've just submitted "A clever saying proves nothing" - a nice antidote to the swarms of smarmy ones out there.

[Trunk]

Originally Posted by Casey1505

"www.goldenpalace.com"

This gets my vote.

Cynical. Funny. Hip. Brief. Current.

I put in that bit from Tolkien. . .

"I don't know half of you half as well as I would like. . ." yadda yadda yadda or however it goes. That was 15 years ago.

[Mr. Goob]

I talked the staff into using this for the end of a college literary anthology, it's from Frank Herbert's Dune.

One learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do these things.

[AskNott]

The old song: Life is just a bowl of cherries.
The chemist sings: Life is just a joule of barium.
The bullfighter sings: Life is a bull, and I will kill him.
The philosopher sings: Life is just.
The Taoist sings: Life is.
The photojournal sings: Life.

[robertliguori]

" 'Shame?' What is this thing you call 'shame?' "

Of course, unless you're one of those people who makes administration need to revise rules about when pants must be worn, it might not be as approriate for you as it was for me.

[Casey1505]

[quote=Trunk][quote=casey1505]www.goldenpalace.com

This gets my vote.

Cynical. Funny. Hip. Brief. Current.

And potentially profitable. Since they seem to have money to throw around, you should see if they'd actually buy your quote space. It won't wipe off as easily as it would on the back of a third rate boxer. Worst they can say is no.

[Beadalin]

Granted, I quoted an REM song, but I still like it.

"Live your life filled with joy and thunder."

[Ghanima]

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
- Henry Miller

[anyrose]

I can't believe I actually remember mine:

When I entered this building this fall, I swore I won't not succumb to Senioritis. And I can now say I have completely avoided...(yawn)...Senioritis

[anyrose]

yikes - damn gerbils

that's would not, not won't not