That quotes meme

[rivkat]

1. Pain is scary.


2. A strange game.


3. They were small and could not hope for help and no help came.


4. My father isn't a crackpot. He's a genius.


5. Words, words, words.


6. After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting.


7. Teach me to be more adaptive.


8. Yeah, a little like a turkey, but not much.


9. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.


10. We're not helping! We're hindering.

Comments

[nestra.livejournal.com]

I know 2, 6, 7, and 9. Also, I suspect #5 is probably not My Fair Lady.

[cjk1701.livejournal.com]

5. Hamlet? 6. Spock?

...said a random stranger from friendsfriends...

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

1. snorfle.

[hisreasons.livejournal.com]

Numero nine is Yeats' "The Second Coming."

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

I need a Jayne icon. Or a River/Jayne icon. Or maybe a River/Jayne/Simon icon.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Should I be scared that you know most of the depressing ones and few of the funny ones?

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Mad and logical by turns.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am that melodramatic.

[slinkling.livejournal.com]

I know I've got 1, 5, 8, and 9 --Firefly, Hamlet, Muppet Movie, and Yeats -- which says some interesting things about my cultural reference points, now that I think of it. 3, 4, and 6 are incredibly familiar but I can't peg them.

[(Anonymous)]

Possibly. I am bummed that I didn't catch the Firefly one.

[puckling.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm pretty sure 4 is Beauty and the Beast, but people other than me have already got 5.
*she says delurking*

[darkest-light.livejournal.com]

3 - is really familiear but I can't identify it
4 - Beauty and the Beast!
6 - that sounds excessively Dumbledore. Is it re: Mirror of Erised?
7 - "Green Finch and Linnet Bird" from Sweeny Todd

This is excessively fun, although it took me a long time to figure out what shrill female I had in my head singing #7... thought it was Anya from Buffy for a bit before I narrowed it down. Huh.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Look, if one of your reference points is Hamlet -- and obviously I think it should be -- then you darned well better balance it with the Muppet Movie. Bear right! Left frog!

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

I gave Beauty & the Beast to a friend of mine, who watched it and said to me, "I know why you like this movie! You're always reading, and that's exactly what you say about your father!"

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

6 is Mr. Spock, in Amok Time, when T'Pring explains her cunning plan to ensure the company of her lover, Stonn.

I adore Sweeney beyond measure, and while I'm not particularly fond of that song, I think the rhyme is one of his best. Otherwise I would have chosen a line from "A Little Priest."

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Right, so I mean "one of Sondheim's best."

[puckling.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a great movie. I've always yearned after the Beast's library.

[darkest-light.livejournal.com]

Oh, it totally is Spock. I love that episode.

I love Sweeney more though. Oh Sweeney.

[darkest-light.livejournal.com]

But then, you're not the one who misspelled Sweeney Todd...

[vass]

4. Heinlein.
5. Hamlet.
6. This is not logical, but so often it is true.
7. Teach me how to sing.
9. The falcon cannot hear the falconer.

[hisreasons.livejournal.com]

"Then actor/That's compacter."
"Yes, and always arrives overdone."

I once caught this satellite radio station that plays only Broadway tunes. I heard a live version of Angela Lansbury and some guy singing "A Little Priest." At the end, the audience cheered like it was the freakin' Beatles.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Is it really possible that no one's gotten the Auden (3) yet? Did I miss it? Shield of Achilles.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

It's the really depressing Auden, though.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Heinlein is great, but not what I was thinking of -- Belle in the Disney Beauty & the Beast.

[chase820.livejournal.com]

I knew 6 and 9. I love the other last of the Spock quote, though: "It is not logical, but it is often true."

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. But I thought that would be a huge giveaway, and it's the first part that has more personal resonance, though I love the whole quote.

[chase820.livejournal.com]

I love the last part. Something about the use of "it is" rather than "it's" makes that whole line scan really beautifully.

[j-bluestocking.livejournal.com]

Your icon brings back memories; man, that was television. I guess the closest we've got to Neil Burnside today is House, and he hasn't arranged to have his only love shot while crossing the border.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

iTunes has two all-Broadway radio stations, though one requires a premium subscription. We've already caught a bunch of Sondheim that way.

[hisreasons.livejournal.com]

...and he hasn't arranged to have his only love shot while crossing the border.

Well, give him time!

Always nice to find another Sandbaggers fan. For some reason, this very low-budget show featuring a nasty lead character hasn't got a wide fandom. Can't imagine why.

[accommodatingly.livejournal.com]

I got three, but they've all been identified above (3, 5, 9). I like 6 a lot (and would never have recognized it... alas). Any others I should feel bad about missing?

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

That fact that you can't place #5 fills me with fear for all humanity. (Clue - check her icon)

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

No one got 10, even though it's the line that got Z. into Buffy.