Shane Life

You guys are very good. Within 8 hours of posting yesterday’s movie quotes meme, over half of the quotes were completed and Jake and Alli hadn’t even taken a crack at them yet. I added an additional bonus quote for two reasons.

1. The movie it’s from is in my top 5 and I can’t believe I forgot it.
2. We actually had the quote read at our wedding…I’m such an idiot.

So, while there is now one additional quote, there are only 5 left. Take a look…a couple of them are kind of difficult.

I lifted this from Average Jane, who lifted it from someone else (who I’m sure lifted it from someone else). Still, it’s awesome and given how much I like movies, I thought it would be fun for a Friday. Here are the rules of the meme:

• Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
• Go to IMDB and find a quote from each movie.
• Post them on your blog for everyone to guess.
• Fill in the film title once it’s been guessed.

These are the rules, people!

• Leave guesses in the comments.
• No Googling or using IMDB search functions. Don’t cheat, suckas!
• Know-it-alls, limit your guesses to three movies. Save some for others! Jake and Alli, you only get 1 each. Make it count.

On to the quotes!

1. “If the professor asks, tell him sorry, I had to go see about a girl.” (Good Will Hunting, Emaw)
2. “It means fasten your seat belt Dorothy, ’cause Kansas is going bye-bye.” (The Matrix, Nuke)
3. “Could I borrow your towel? My car just hit a water buffalo.” (Fletch, Emaw)
4. “The only true currency in this bankrupt world if what we share with someone else when we’re uncool.” (Almost Famous, Shea)
5. “I don’t want to lose heart. I want to believe as he does.” (Braveheart, Jake)
6. “Which came first, the music or the misery?” (High Fidelity, Jake)
7. “Get in there, you big furry oaf! I don’t care what you smell!” (Star Wars, Average Jane)
8. “We’re in the middle of a revolution Jude. And what are you doing? Doodles and cartoons?” (Across the Universe, Bea)
9. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” (Moulin Rouge!, Alli)
10. “I just know, before this is over, I’m gonna need a whole lot of serious therapy. Look at my eye twitchin’.” (Shrek, The D)
11. “Know why you hate me so much Jeffrey? Because I look the way you feel.” (With Honors, Kelly)
12. “What we do in life echoes in eternity.” (Gladiator, Chimpotle)
13. “Are we like couples you see in restaurants? Are we the dining dead?” (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Alli)
14. “Lightning. Fire. Power of God or something.” (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Average Jane)
15. “I don’t know about the cat, but I sure am enjoyin’ it.” (Christmas Vacation, Steve)
16. (Bonus added because I can’t believe I forgot it…it was in our wedding) “I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No… not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that… over-throws life. Unbiddable, ungovernable - like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love - like there has never been in a play.” (Shakespeare in Love, Shea)

I saw this meme on kottke.org (who saw it on River Damp), but I thought it was worth mentioning.

Go here and look through random quotes until you find five that you think reflect who you are or what you believe.

Here are mine:

• If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. (Rene Descartes)
• Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. (Abraham Lincoln)
• The secret of happiness is not in what one likes to do, but what in one has to do. (James M. Barrie)
• Last words are for people who haven’t said anything in life. (Karl Marx)
• Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only what you are expecting to give–which is everything. (Katharine Hepburn)

What are yours?

My friend Phil sent me this e-mail and I thought it was really funny. I am going to publish it here because I don’t really like forwards, but this is worth sharing…

Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer: “I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,”
–Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest.
(On September 17, 1994, Alabama’s Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.)

“Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.”
–Mariah Carey

“Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life,”
–Brooke Shields, during an interview to become Spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign.

“I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body,”
–Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.

“Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,”
–Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.

“I’m not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.”
–Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents.

“That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I’m just the one to do it,”
–A congressional candidate in Texas.

“Half this game is ninety percent mental.”
–Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark

“It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”
And
“We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur.”
–Al Gore, VP

“I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.”
–Dan “Potatoe” Quayle

“We’ve got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?”
–Lee Iacocca

“The word “genius” isn’t applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.”
–Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.

“We don’t necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people.”
–Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor.

“If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.”
–Bill Clinton, President

“Traditionally, most of Australia’s imports come from overseas.”
–Keppel Enderbery

“Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.”
–Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina

“If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there’ll be a record.”
–Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman