Thursday, August 16, 2007

Notable Quotables

A funfunfun lada land game with a prize for the winner! Don't try and control your excitement, cheerful reader - let it run free!

These are ten quotes from famous/infamous people. See how many speakers you can correctly name. Email (don't post!) your answers to me at ladaland@gmail.com by Saturday at noon. The person who guesses the most correctly will win a superad prize.

NO CHEATING
NO LOOKING UP THE ANSWERS
USE MEMORY OR GOOD GUESSES ONLY!
(If you cheat you are a just a sad, loser with no self-confidence.)

1) “For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. I can part the Red Sea, but I can’t part with you, which is why I won’t exclude you from this stage in my life.”

2) “Well, I can wear heels now.”

3) “Why can’t you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone.”

4) “You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police. Everybody else you tell the truth to.”

5) “I can only tell you that it has been an honor and a privilege to come into your homes all these years and entertain you ... I bid you a very heartfelt goodnight.”

6) “Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let’s get that straight. OK? We don’t do crack. We don’t do that. Crack is whack.”

7) “I’m too much of an erratic moody baby! I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.”

8) "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded."

9) “This moment is so much bigger than me. This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll. It’s for the women that stand beside me ... And it’s for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.”

10) “I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.”

GOOD LUCK

- lada will make your bell bottoms go ding-dong

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