The Quotation Meme

[amanuensis1]

Tagged by ellen_fremedon, plus I saw it first on florahart's lj and yeah, I think it's cool.

Go here and look through random quotations until you find 5 that you think reflect who you are or what you believe

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[_hannelore]

I feel like this one could be a meme in itself! :D

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

Bold what you have accomplished!

[_hannelore]

Oh, and...

"Life is a zoo in a jungle." - Peter De Vries

"No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit." - Sir Frederick G. Banting

"Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do." - Bob Dylan

"She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell." - Marita Bonner

"We're not lost. We're locationally challenged." - John M. Ford

[amanuensis1]

I love the De Vries one especially!

[amanuensis1]

Hee, and one can never get the complete set. Not and post about it, leastaways. ^_^

[lirren]

Ooooh, that was fun. I could have spent the entire afternoon reading quotes. And I sort of cheated. I used six instead of five. But still!

[amanuensis1]

I did spend at least an hour going through them, reading! *goes to see yours*

[noblerot]

Specialization is for insects.

Haha! Oh, Heinlein. I'd forgotten how really smart he can be.

And this...

Reality continues to ruin my life.

...should be tattooed on my chest.

[amanuensis1]

I was going to use another Heinlein one, too, the one about religion being like dandruff, but I couldn't do two Heinlein's so I did the Adams one instead, figuring it substituted okay. ^_^

[fabularasa]

Mr. Rasa says to bestow yet another kiss on you, because the Heinlein quotation is going to be a new website and syllabus header.

[amanuensis1]

I love that quote. And the shameful thing is, I look at it as a way I think I should function but I don't, really--I wish I spoke more languages and knew how to drive a stick shift and grow tulips and fix a leaky tap, y'know? (But I can make ice cream and connect video cables and read a subway map!)

[amanuensis1]

(And I've had that quote up in a teensy xerox on my bulletin board for years!)

[so_severus]

surprise! - you are my hp fanfic mentor :D just wanted to pop by and say hello. Let me know how you want to go about doing this thing.

speak to you soon,

jenn

[amanuensis1]

Wonderful! What I would like to do is learn what your hopes/expectations for writing in the fandom are. I really would like to do some kind of discussion with you and the other mentees on m'list, see if that generates ideas, as a group...

[so_severus]

sounds good