North & South (not Patrick Swayze version), Goblet of Fire, Calvin & Hobbes
Yes a bit eclectic. First of all, people are watching North & South and I'm turning pea green with envy because it looks so good. I've emailed my bro and asked him to check out the ABC shop in Canberra to see if they have a copy.
alexandral's been enthusing about the series for a while, dangermousie has just made a serious of great posts about it and even included extracts from dialogue which are positively swooney. :D
I'm posting a reminder since alexandral's icons are too lovely to disappear into the depths of LJ 'jump back prevous 20 entries'-land. alexandral's user icons for North & South are here.
ginger001 has re-watched North & South and has just posted some beautiful Richard Armitage icons. She's also posted some Goblet of Fire icons (including 2 Cedric/Hermione icons) and her post can be found here.
There is also a new community called north_and_south. I'll join after I've read and watched the series :) Also there are some North & South icons and music clips at bbccostumedrama.
I love Calvin & Hobbes but most of the good sites I used to visit have been shut down. The wonderful juprujac let me know about two fabulous sites! One is Simply Calvin & Hobbes and the other is Calvin & Hobbes Wonderland. I adore Calvin's Dad - his source of knowledge and wisdom and the quotes page is just great!!! I wanted to quote my favourites but I would have ended up quoting pretty much the whole page so just go and look for yourselves. :D That being said, my faves are under the cut ;)
Aside from the fact that Calvin & Hobbes is just plain funny, what I love about it is that there's a funny mix of cynicism yet sweetness in the sentiments of Calvin and his 'toy' tiger. On the one hand he comes up with hilariously adult and sarcastic comments, yet their insights on life are very simple and heart-warming. :)
My question for the day. Is Hobbes real and does he just turn himself into a stuffed toy when other people are around? Or is Hobbes a figment of Calvin's very vivid imagination? :)
Quotes
"There's more to this world than just people, you know."
-Hobbes [Comment from Koala: Ooh that's very Cylon of you Hobbes]
"Why should I have to WORK for everything?! It's like saying I don't deserve it!"
-Calvin
"You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help."
-Calvin [Comment from Koala: *choke*]
"I'd hate to have a kid like me."
-Calvin
"If you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe we'll just have to make some!"
-Hobbes
"If mom and dad cared about me at all, they'd buy me some infra-red nighttime vision goggles."
-Calvin
"If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again."
-Calvin
"Reality continues to ruin my life."
-Calvin
"What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?"
-Calvin
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
-Calvin
"I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point."
-Calvin
"Girls are like slugs - they probably serve some purpose, but it's hard to imagine what."
-Calvin
"Do you hate being a girl? What's it like? Is it like being a bug?
I imagine bugs and girls have a dim perception that nature played a cruel trick on them, but they lack the intelligence to comrehend the magnitude of it."
-Calvin
"Childhood is short, maturity is forever."
-Calvin
"If people could put rainbows in zoos, they'd do it."
-Hobbes
"I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway."
-Calvin
"True friends are hard to come by...I need more money."
-Calvin
"Susie, if you want to see your doll again, leave $100 in this envelope by the tree out front. Do not call the police. You cannot trace us. You cannot find us. Sincerely, Calvin."
-Calvin
"In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks."
-Calvin
"Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?"
-Calvin
"Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination."
-Calvin
"There's an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun it is."
-Calvin
"There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!"
-Calvin
"So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?"
-Calvin
"I don't know which is worse, ...that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low."
-Calvin
"When I grow up, I'm not going to read the newspaper and I'm not going to follow complex issues and I'm not going to vote. That way I can complain when the government doesn't represent me. Then, when everything goes down the tubes, I can say the system doesn't work and justify my further lack of participation."
-Calvin [Comment from Koala: This is just .. gah ...]
"The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!"
-Calvin
"The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity the tell the difference."
-Calvin
"Everybody I know needs a complete personality overhaul!"
-Calvin
"I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!"
-Calvin
"You know how people are. They only recognize greatness when some authority confirms it."
-Calvin
"History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices."
-Calvin
"The best presents don't come in boxes."
-Hobbes Comment from Koala: Gah, now I'm feeling all oooey gooey]
"As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway."
-Calvin
"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend."
-Calvin
"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
-Calvin
"It's only work if somebody makes you do it."
-Calvin
"Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success... ...Flat stretches of boring routine... ...And valleys of frustration and failure."
-Calvin
"Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension."
-Calvin
"What I like is when you're looking and thinking and looking and thinking... And suddenly you wake up."
-Calvin
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."
-Calvin
"The good thing about drawing a tiger is that it automatically makes your picture fine art."
-Hobbes
"You know, there are times when it's a source of personal pride to not be human."
-Hobbes [Comment from Koala: Again, that's very Cylon of you Hobbes]
"I had resolved to be less offended by human nature, but I think I blew it already."
-Hobbes
"You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid? Well, mine are even worse!"
-Calvin
"A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do."
-Calvin
"I'M SIGNIFICANT!...screamed the dust speck."
-Calvin
"The worst part is that I don't even have the fun of doing the things I'm getting blamed for."
-Calvin
"Being a parent is wanting to hug and strangle your kid at the same time."
-Calvin's Dad
"I keep forgetting that rules are for little nice people."
-Calvin
alexandral's been enthusing about the series for a while, dangermousie has just made a serious of great posts about it and even included extracts from dialogue which are positively swooney. :D
I'm posting a reminder since alexandral's icons are too lovely to disappear into the depths of LJ 'jump back prevous 20 entries'-land. alexandral's user icons for North & South are here.
ginger001 has re-watched North & South and has just posted some beautiful Richard Armitage icons. She's also posted some Goblet of Fire icons (including 2 Cedric/Hermione icons) and her post can be found here.
There is also a new community called north_and_south. I'll join after I've read and watched the series :) Also there are some North & South icons and music clips at bbccostumedrama.
I love Calvin & Hobbes but most of the good sites I used to visit have been shut down. The wonderful juprujac let me know about two fabulous sites! One is Simply Calvin & Hobbes and the other is Calvin & Hobbes Wonderland. I adore Calvin's Dad - his source of knowledge and wisdom and the quotes page is just great!!! I wanted to quote my favourites but I would have ended up quoting pretty much the whole page so just go and look for yourselves. :D That being said, my faves are under the cut ;)
Aside from the fact that Calvin & Hobbes is just plain funny, what I love about it is that there's a funny mix of cynicism yet sweetness in the sentiments of Calvin and his 'toy' tiger. On the one hand he comes up with hilariously adult and sarcastic comments, yet their insights on life are very simple and heart-warming. :)
My question for the day. Is Hobbes real and does he just turn himself into a stuffed toy when other people are around? Or is Hobbes a figment of Calvin's very vivid imagination? :)
Quotes
"There's more to this world than just people, you know."
-Hobbes [Comment from Koala: Ooh that's very Cylon of you Hobbes]
"Why should I have to WORK for everything?! It's like saying I don't deserve it!"
-Calvin
"You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help."
-Calvin [Comment from Koala: *choke*]
"I'd hate to have a kid like me."
-Calvin
"If you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe we'll just have to make some!"
-Hobbes
"If mom and dad cared about me at all, they'd buy me some infra-red nighttime vision goggles."
-Calvin
"If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again."
-Calvin
"Reality continues to ruin my life."
-Calvin
"What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?"
-Calvin
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
-Calvin
"I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point."
-Calvin
"Girls are like slugs - they probably serve some purpose, but it's hard to imagine what."
-Calvin
"Do you hate being a girl? What's it like? Is it like being a bug?
I imagine bugs and girls have a dim perception that nature played a cruel trick on them, but they lack the intelligence to comrehend the magnitude of it."
-Calvin
"Childhood is short, maturity is forever."
-Calvin
"If people could put rainbows in zoos, they'd do it."
-Hobbes
"I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway."
-Calvin
"True friends are hard to come by...I need more money."
-Calvin
"Susie, if you want to see your doll again, leave $100 in this envelope by the tree out front. Do not call the police. You cannot trace us. You cannot find us. Sincerely, Calvin."
-Calvin
"In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks."
-Calvin
"Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?"
-Calvin
"Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination."
-Calvin
"There's an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun it is."
-Calvin
"There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!"
-Calvin
"So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?"
-Calvin
"I don't know which is worse, ...that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low."
-Calvin
"When I grow up, I'm not going to read the newspaper and I'm not going to follow complex issues and I'm not going to vote. That way I can complain when the government doesn't represent me. Then, when everything goes down the tubes, I can say the system doesn't work and justify my further lack of participation."
-Calvin [Comment from Koala: This is just .. gah ...]
"The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!"
-Calvin
"The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity the tell the difference."
-Calvin
"Everybody I know needs a complete personality overhaul!"
-Calvin
"I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!"
-Calvin
"You know how people are. They only recognize greatness when some authority confirms it."
-Calvin
"History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices."
-Calvin
"The best presents don't come in boxes."
-Hobbes Comment from Koala: Gah, now I'm feeling all oooey gooey]
"As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway."
-Calvin
"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend."
-Calvin
"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
-Calvin
"It's only work if somebody makes you do it."
-Calvin
"Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success... ...Flat stretches of boring routine... ...And valleys of frustration and failure."
-Calvin
"Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension."
-Calvin
"What I like is when you're looking and thinking and looking and thinking... And suddenly you wake up."
-Calvin
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."
-Calvin
"The good thing about drawing a tiger is that it automatically makes your picture fine art."
-Hobbes
"You know, there are times when it's a source of personal pride to not be human."
-Hobbes [Comment from Koala: Again, that's very Cylon of you Hobbes]
"I had resolved to be less offended by human nature, but I think I blew it already."
-Hobbes
"You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid? Well, mine are even worse!"
-Calvin
"A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do."
-Calvin
"I'M SIGNIFICANT!...screamed the dust speck."
-Calvin
"The worst part is that I don't even have the fun of doing the things I'm getting blamed for."
-Calvin
"Being a parent is wanting to hug and strangle your kid at the same time."
-Calvin's Dad
"I keep forgetting that rules are for little nice people."
-Calvin