Thursday, March 22, 2007

Topic : Quotes & Taglines II

TOPIC : Quotes & Taglines II
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Sorry for being so late this time,the hiatus went a bit longer than planned,but what the hell,I'm back now,aren't I? Anyways,send your entries to prithwish.nath@gmail.com.Here,obviously name the person(remember,quotes can also be by fictional characters!),or in case of taglines,name the movie.(If it is a tagline,i'll mention it specifically)
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PRIZE : "The Day Of The Jackal" -Frederic Forsythe (that's a book,FYI)

WINNER : NONE (1 entry only)
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1. "I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then, whoosh and I'm gone.. and they'll never see anything like it ever again, and they won't be able to forget me - ever."

Ans: Jim Morrison

2."When I first heard Elvis' voice, I just knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody, and nobody was going to be my boss. He is the deity supreme of rock and roll religion as it exists in today's form. Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. I thank God for Elvis Presley."

Ans: Bob Dylan

3."
A good idea is like a yo-yo-it may go to the end of its string, but it doesn't die there; it only sleeps. Eventually it rolls back up into your palm."

Ans: Stephen King

4."Our gains are not measured in the losses of others. They are counted in the conflicts we avert, the prosperity we share and the peace we extend."

Ans: George W. Bush

5."
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast..."

Ans: Carl Denham from the movie "King Kong"

6."I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God."

Ans: Albert Einstein

7."If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat, or show lack of respect towards this book, the consequences will be as awful as it is within my power to make them." [HINT: Written in the preface of a book]

Ans: Irma Pince from "Quidditch Through The Ages -J.K.Rowling"


8."On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right."

Ans: Martin Luther King,Jr.

9."He loved the American Dream....With a Vengeance..." - Identify the movie.

Ans: Scarface

10."You'll never laugh as long and as loud again as long as you live! The laughs come so fast and so furious you'll wish it would end before you collapse!" - Identify the movie.

Ans: Modern Times

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