If you were a Shakespeare quote
Ms. Haiku
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which one would you be? I like the one in my sig line. I still have some fears to address, but all in good time. There's bunches of websites with Shakespeare quotes - have a look, and post the one that fits you.
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The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
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I would be "a tale /Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/Signifying nothing", of course.
That's Ms. Haiku to you, buster;)
Where's that quote from?
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
I have almost forgot the taste of fears;
The time has been, my senses would have cool'd
To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts
Cannot once start me.
Re-enter SEYTON
Wherefore was that cry?
SEYTON
The queen, my lord, is dead.
MACBETH
She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
if only becasue I don't know a lot of quotes I have to bust up the mad cliche
Chris Cornell
http://www.myspace.com/mrwalkerb
Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
That summons you to heaven, or to hell
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath.
It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes."
--Portia from Merchant of Venice (Act IV, Scene I)
Spending again what is already spent.
Sonnet 76
Kindof ironic in this thread, eh?
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a
base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,
hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a
lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson,
glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue;
one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a
bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but
the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar,
and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I
will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest
the least syllable of thy addition.
That's Kent's estimation of Oswald, to his face, in King Lear, my favourite Shakespeare play. If you ever need to insult someone, take a tip from the bard.
from the sonnet below:
But these particulars are not my measure;
All these I better in one general best.
Sonnet XCI (that's 91
Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,
Some in their wealth, some in their bodies' force,
Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill,
Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse;
And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure,
Wherein it finds a joy above the rest:
But these particulars are not my measure;
All these I better in one general best.
Thy love is better than high birth to me,
Richer than wealth, prouder than garments' cost,
Of more delight than hawks or horses be;
And having thee, of all men's pride I boast:
Wretched in this alone, that thou mayst take
All this away and me most wretched make.
As she slams the door in his drunken face
And now he stands outside
And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
And his tears fall and burn the garden green
BE's choice is more up my alley and the way I think.
No one needs a smile more than someone who fails to give one,
After you die...you know how to LIVE!
--From Much Ado About Nothing (III, i, 106)
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
"Oh, I am fortune's fool!"
from my window to yours
To liberty, and not to banishment.
--From As You Like It (I, iii, 139-14)
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
"the rest is silence"
from Hamlet.
I'm too lazy to look up its exact place..
or if not that, I'd be a sonnet I'm also too lazy yo look up.
This is me as well.
Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
(Midsummer Night's Dream, V.i.7-22)
The Merry Wives of Windsor
- (Act III, Scene V).
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
(Act I, Scene IV). Measure for Measure
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
and cause biblio recommended him.
"I would be "a tale /Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/Signifying nothing", of course"
fins, the sound and the fury!! faulkner, i'm telling you something about you reminds me a faulkner
no one has ever used an allusion as well as he did with that one, or extended it the way he did, it's really an amazzzzzing novel, imo.
But since you're asking Shakespeare...I like this quote from Othello.
"I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at."
William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 1 scene 1
or the one from Julius Caesar
"...is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings."
Twelfth Night (Act III, Scene I).
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
As You Like It
- (Act IV, Scene I).
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
--From As You Like It (II, iv, 53-56)
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
--From Macbeth (V, v, 19)
Some of you already posted the ending of this quote, so I won't do it again.
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
Hamlet
(Act III, Scene II).
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
Venus & Adonis
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
Ant & Cleo, Act iii, Sc.4
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird