"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a Frank."

    "To be or not to be, that is the credenza."

    "My wooden doggie is scrunched against the wall."

It is these and other great quotes that make literature special.
What is special to you?

21 responses total.

Being able to read these and other great quotes is special to me.  Being
literate, in fact, is very, very special to me.

Remmers will tell of how may times I've stood in Borders, arms outstretched,
turning round-and-round, remarking on how amazing it all is.  I mean, 
all of those books use the same words.  The only difference, from one
to any other, is the *order* of those words.  To which remmers always says...

...this is very true.  Shakespeare is remembered today because he wrote
"To be or not to be" and not "Not or be be to to".

Okay.  Repeat this mantra many, many times.  (preferrably aloud)

Owwha taj ur kieyam.

say what?

You may need to say it a few more times.

one little two little three little special things
four little five little six little special things
seven little eight little nine little special things
ten little special things... uh...

Ten little Beanie Toys!

This items is hereby official and sanctimoniously dedicated to the 
superfluous enumeration of excessive and indenumerable so-called-Beanie
personae within or without your exclusive, indecipherable, and really
squishy personal posession, actual, virtual, or pseudohyperpolysyllablically
conceptualized.

Jaspar Jellyfish
Besty Buzzard
Randy Roadkill
one Nerf brick for throwing at the TV that we found all over the house
   after a black lab named Leonardo White chewed it to pieces one night.

A green eggplant named Zoe. That's about it for me.

Elmer the Crab, Oscar II the Squeaky Guard Lobster, and an unnamed Tree Frog

Sorry, but we named the tree frog Dart B. Poison II at our spring equinox
fertility fest this year.  

Ah.  And are the equinoxes breeding more rapidly as a result?

Unfortunately no.  The other fertility fest attendees (esp. those who
sampled our wide variety of punches) have reported generally reported
excellent results.  But no matter how spirited the revelry, we just
couldn't get the two equinoxes together.  (*ONLY* two - they're 
*critically* endangered!)

We have several study groups at work on the matter and hope for better
results when we try again in about 5 monthes. 

Rainbow sherbert makes good punch

Well no wonder you're having trouble, if you're trying to breed _two_
equinoxes together.  That's like trying to breed two hens with no rooster!
For goodness sake, get one of them solstices into the next attempt.

You have a *problem* with same equinox mating? Hmmm? 

Watch out!  He may be some sort of heterophile, with all sorts of anti-
social behavior problems.  He could turn violent at any time.

Or he may just want the fertility fest held 3 months sooner than planned
for personal reasons....                    :)

Mating is one thing, but expecting offspring from the pairing...

whats this?????

Yeah, what's up with the delay?  Several equinoxes have come and gone - I
demand a progress report!

Re #19:  "this" is a pronoun or a proverb or something like that

Re #20:  You can find all the details of problems (lots) and progress
        (little) on the web.  I forget the URL, but "Thangorodrim"
        and "chromodynamism" in any decent search engine will pull it
        right up.  In brief, one of the two equinoxes has a frigidity
        problem, the other a fertility problem.  We need to renew our
        grant at a higher funding level to get more researchers, more
        scientific equipment, and a better brand of vodka in the punch. 

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