Another pathetic plea for help...

[check your personality]

Posted: 12/16/04 at 10:29pm

Hey everyone:

I'm not sure why I didn't think of this sooner, but for my senior quote for my high school's yearbook, I need to submit something by tomorrow! I've been searching everywhere for something since I really don't have a personal mantra that I live by - but what I couldn't find was any good parts of songs from Broadway that had a good message (life, the future, inspiration, etc.) for ideas for my quote. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it! Thanks.

[SallyBrown]

Posted: 12/16/04 at 10:32pm

hmm for my yearbook i used a quote from YAGMCB, but it might be too silly for senior year

i had:

"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomarrow, I'll probably still be a dog. There's just so little hope of advancement."- Snoopy

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/16/04 at 10:34pm

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

[Plum]

Posted: 12/16/04 at 10:36pm

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

Stop worrying if your vision is new. Let others make that decision; they usually do.


Can you tell what I've been listening to?

[Ellie3]

Posted: 12/16/04 at 10:49pm

Emblazoned inbold purple - 'Curtain up! Light the lights! You got nothin' to hit but the heights!'

Or else 'Are we nearly there yet?'
Or else 'Couldn't think of anything'

[superperson]

Posted: 12/16/04 at 11:13pm

One of my favorite philosophies is "If you want to be happy, be." But that's not from a show.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 12/16/04 at 11:14pm

'All the world's of stage. I just have a better seat.'

[Bobby457]

Posted: 12/16/04 at 11:21pm

Dont let the doorknob hit you in the a$$ on the way out!

[judy_in_disguise]

Posted: 12/16/04 at 11:32pm

Cages or wings, which do you prefer? Ask the bird.

[LiTtLeDaNcEr729]

Posted: 12/17/04 at 12:44am

With only so much time to spend- don't want to waste the time I'm given.

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 12/17/04 at 12:45am

This is mine:

"Maybe my purpose is to take everything I'm learning and put it into a show!"

[NativeNewYorker]

Posted: 12/17/04 at 12:47am

Nothing is an accident
We are free to have it all
We are what we want to be
It's in ourselves to rise or fall! Aida

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/17/04 at 12:54am

Aida.

I know it's cliche, but maybe the "No day but today" idea from RENT.

[maybethistime]

Posted: 12/17/04 at 1:01am

Everone's a little bit unsatisfied.
Everyone goes 'round a little empty inside.
Take a breath, look around, swallow your pride...
For now.

[etoile]

Posted: 12/17/04 at 1:44am

Write something from your own heart.

[Mamie]

Posted: 12/17/04 at 2:05am

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? --- (opening lines of Langston Hughes' "Harlem [2]." which inspired the title of the play A Raisin in the Sun)

I wanna be read, loved, memorized. I wanna be a poem that changes lives.
Suheir Hammad one of the poets of Def Poetry Jam

Once and for all you must know that there's a universe of people outside, and you're responsible to it. --Chris Keller (to his mother) in Act 3 of All My Sons

Fame without achievement is the safest bet I know.---Alexa Vere de Veer, As Bees In Honey Drown

There are no big moments you can reach unless you've a pile of smaller moments to stand on. That big hour of decision, the turning point in your life, the someday you've counted on when you'd suddenly wipe out your past mistakes, do the work you'd never done, think the way you'd never thought, have what you'd never had--it just doesn't come suddenly. You've trained yourself for it while you waited--or you've let it all run past you. --General Benjamin Griggs, in Act 3 of Lillian Hellman's 1951 drama, The Autumn Garden

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it
--Morell, in Candida,Act 1.

Life is tit for tat.
--Matron "Mama" Morton,in Chicago

If I'm ever to reach any understanding of myself and the things around me, I must learn to stand alone. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer --Nora, in Henrick Ibsen's A Doll's House

As long as man can believe in music, I'll believe in the future of mankind. --Albert Einstein, Einstein, A Stage Portrait

You work, you slave, you worry . . . Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh at it all -- so sings Valarie Pettiford, in "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" the opening number of Fosse.

Art consists of knowing the basic rules and realizing when it is time to deviate from them
>--Prof. Joseph Mashkan in Old Wicked Songs

[CJR]

Posted: 12/17/04 at 2:12am

Don't dream it, be it.

Love is not a matter of counting the years, love is a matter of making the years count.

Is it the wind there over my shoulder? Is it your voice calling quietly? Over the hilltops, down in the valley, never alone for you walk with me.

If life is a school, I'll pass every test. If life is a game, I'll play it the best.

The heart is simple. Fixing it is complicated.

[jczelyph]

Posted: 12/17/04 at 5:25am

I used the four lines around the 'no day but today' theme from Rent. Uber-cheesey, I know, but when I look at it now (a grand 3 years after leaving high school, I'm pleased with it because 1) not many people from the school will know what RENT is so it appears fairly original 2) it sums up exactly what I wanted to say at that time and how I want people to remember me and 3) i like the fact that it's a link to a musical.

[Justice]

Posted: 12/17/04 at 6:38am

"If you have no expectations, you can never have a dissapointment"
Fosca from Stephen Songheim's Passion

"Remember Me, is all I ask. And if remembering be a task, Forget Me!"
Laurie Anderson (not from a show)

Updated On: 12/17/04 at 06:38 AM