Monday Meme: Question One

Well there has been an awful lot of blogging about books around here lately so I thought I would break it up by doing a meme to make things interesting!

So, many of you are likely sitting there scratching your head and wondering "What on earth is she talking about?", "What is a meme?".

I'm glad you asked.

A meme is essentially an idea or behavior that spreads from one person to another; it is something that repeats. In the terms of the internet (or this post) a meme is generally a series of questions that is repeated from blog to blog and answered with the poster's own thoughts. The subject matter of a meme can vary wildly and can include questions on one topic or a multitude of topics and have as many or as few questions as the blogger desires.

This meme will have about 8 or 9 questions and I'll be posting one question a week. If you would like to 'steal' this meme and use it on your own site steal away- just comment back here and let me know because I'd sure like to read your answers too!

Question #1

"What is your favorite line from your favorite movie and why?" 

So, here's the thing, This is the impossible question for me- unfortunately I really am that indecisive that I can't pick my favorite movie! And ya know what?

I'm ok with that.

Here's something you likely don't know about me- I'm really choosy about my movies and I never buy or ask for a movie that isn't my favorite in some way. I don't have to have a favorite movie and I don't have to love one of my 'movie children' better than another.
So...
When I look a my movie cubbie I see and hear all the best of the best lines...
There is:

Persuasion Where Anne Elliot argues the virtue of women and the longevity of a woman's love.

"If I may, so long as the woman you love lives, and lives for you, all the privilege I claim for my own sex, and it is not a very enviable one - you need not covet it, is that of loving longest when all hope is gone."

Love this because how truly it resonates... Jane as always knows what she is talking about!

Amazing Grace Where Barbara and Wilbur are really talking in depth for the first time and she is making him tell her all about his quest to end slavery in England when all he wants to do is forget it she tells him...

Barbara Wilberforce: It seems to me, that if there is a bad taste in your mouth, you spit it out. You don't constantly swallow it back.

This is only one of the many gems in this movie! But I love the spunk and determination with which Barbara has to help Wilbur see his mission in life through to the end. She is a great match for him!

And yes, I'll be a bit cliched here-  Pride and Prejudice:

Lady Catherine: "Upon my word, you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person. -- Pray, what is your age?''

Lizzy: "With three younger sisters grown up, your Ladyship can hardly expect me to own it.''

Lady Catherine: "You cannot be more than twenty, I am sure, -- therefore you need not conceal your age.''

Lizzy: "I am not one and twenty.''

This one make me LOL...do you know how often I've been tempted to use it myself?

Aah, so many great movies and quotes- how can I help but love them all?!

Although it is not one that you may be familiar with I have to say that my favorite line of all time has to come from the old Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda classic:
Yours Mine and Ours:
[Helen is about to have a baby]

Colleen:  I know this is a terrible time to talk about it, but Larry says...
Frank: I've got a message for Larry. You tell him this is what it's all about. This is the real happening. If you want to know what love really is, take a look around you.
Helen: What are you two talking about?
Frank: Take a good look at your mother.
Helen: Not now!
Frank: Yes, now.
[to Colleen]
Frank: It's giving life that counts. Until you're ready for it, all the rest is just a big fraud. All the crazy haircuts in the world won't keep it turning. Life isn't a love in, it's the dishes and the orthodontist and the shoe repairman and... ground round instead of roast beef. And I'll tell you something else: it isn't going to a bed with a man that proves you're in love with him; it's getting up in the morning and facing the drab, miserable, wonderful everyday world with him that counts.
[Leaving the house, they say good-bye to the little kids]
Frank: I suppose having 19 kids is carrying it a bit too far, but if we had it to do over who would we skip... you?
Helen: [getting into the car] Thank you, Frank. I never quite knew how to explain it to her.
Frank: If we don't get you to the hospital fast, the rest of it's going to be explained right here!

It's the perfect ultra romantic statement about what real romance is all about!

So there is is...not one but several of my favorite movie quotes from several of my favorite movies! No, I didn't reeeealy follow the meme prompt exactly but I had fun doing what I did and that's what it's all about!!

So are you in the mood to meme with me? Stay tuned for next weeks question!