Quotescrape v 0.1

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Quotescrape

Who are you

"I'm a little pixie. I dance merrily up and down
making cute and squeaky sounds"
Archie Maskill - the Pixie Song

"I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me"
A. A. Milne - Winnie the Pooh

What do you look like?

"Well he looks at me with those innocent eyes,
says 'It looks like you're wearing some kind of disguise.
Your hair sticks out, your shoes are untied,
I hope that you got that shirt at half price.'"
Josie and the Pussycats - Pretend to be Nice

What's your secret?

"I'm all right, I'll be OK if I can keep myself awake"
Black Labs - Keep Myself Awake

"When offered the choice between the path of Desire and the path of Virtue he'd chosen the path marked Diversion."
Tom Holt - Ye Gods

"Driven on by my desire for wisdom I decided to cheer myself up with wine and have a good time"
Good News Bible - Ecclesiastes 1 or 2

"I will never say the word procrastinate again
I'll never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed"
They Might Be Giants - Dead

So I have a lot of secrets. Sue me.

What do you want to be?

"Everyone wants to be naked and famous"
Presidents of the USA - Naked and Famous

What can you do?

"Fiddlesticks and flapdoodle! You can't make chocolate biscuits out of breadcrumbs and butterbeans!

Yes we can!"
Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin - Bagpuss (Professor Yaffle and the mice)

What can't you do?

"Can I burn the mazes I grow? Can I? I don't think so"
K's Choice - Virgin State of Mind

What is love?

"Only in dreams, we see what it means.
Reach out our hands, hold on to hers.
But when we wake, it's all been erased
And so it seems, only in dreams"
Weezer - Only in dreams

What is friendship?

"I can't be your weather, cos if it rains then it rains.
Can't be your lover, cos the feelings would change.
Can't be the wind, cos the wind blows too free
but if you want a true companion don't forget about me.

Don't forget about me when your heart is in the shade,
when there's no-one to hold you and you've fallen from grace.
When the spotlights come blind you and you can no longer see
I'll be right there beside you. Don't forget about me"
Nanci Griffiths - Don't forget about me

Are you strong?

"I'm fragile as the lady of the harbour
Fragile as her torch that glows
Fragile as the gulf stream water
To the Texas coast"
Nanci Griffiths - Fragile

What are you afraid of?

"Don't feel sorry for me - I hate that look on your face"
Joan Osbourne - Dracula Moon

"Into the night I went looking for angels
Only to find that I was walking alone
Searchin' the line for some sign of salvation
But I found none"
Alabama 3 - Sister Rosetta

What would you do with a million dollars?

"Oh well that's different. I'd buy a great big turnip in the country"
Richard Curtis and Ben Elton - Blackadder III

What would you tell the one who loves you?

"She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable"
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash

"Hey, you always stood me still. Hey, you always will"
Nanci Griffith - Always Will

What do you want to do?

"People don't live or die. People just float"
Joan Osbourne - Man in the Long Black Coat

Where do you want to be?

"In the garage, I feel safe
No-one cares about my ways.
In the garage where I belong
no-one hears me sing this song"
Weezer - In the Garage

"When I'm in the middle of a dream
Stay in bed, float upstream"
The Beatles - I'm only sleeping

Who do you love?

"Somebody said, from the bible they quote
There was dust on the man in the long black coat"
Joan Osbourne - Man in the Long Black Coat

What do you want?

"Everybody wants a rock to wind a piece of string around"
They Might Be Giants - We Want a Rock

"Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads"
They Might Be Giants - We Want a Rock

Comments

Re: Gandalf the Grey

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

A nice quote. Do you just like it, or were you intending it as the answer to one of the questions above?