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Senior Quote?

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Sep 2, 2009
by: JohnSargeant
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   Something that i care alot about this week is finding a good quote for the yearrbook. First i will define what good is, or the parameters that i'm searching for, so first off i want the quote to be sufficiently cynnical, cynical because the ones that i read in the yearbook this year, for some reason really irritated me. They were too romantic and or idealistic. Its also probably a good question to work out why i feel this way. However moving on, the quote also has to be to some degree thought provoking, i don't want to use anything devoid of any higher meaning, for example, "I like crumpets means absolutely nothing aside from the literal translation. One quote i did find was from a book called Shantaram, "Truth is a bully we all pretend to like". I like this quote for several reasons, one, its from a book that i thoroughly enjoyed and i even named it as my favorite book for a year or so, as well as the fact that it was written by an Australian heroin addict, who currently resides in prison. Thirdly i think it has a certain relvance and again it is on the cynical side. Another possible quote for my yearbook comes from Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment,  

 "Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid."  
Said What?

This quote i like for a different reason mostly because i do believe in the existence of this quotes phenomenon, and of course the fact that its not too soppy... or religous, which now that i think about it is another area i have no wish to advocate in the yearbook.

All in all a difficult descion lays ahead of me, and now that i've written this article and posted it so anyone could read it, i really am going to have to find something good

 

 

 

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  Dear John:   I really

Submitted by CMoser on Sun, 2009-09-20 13:38.

 

Dear John:
 
I really appreciated reading your article, “Senior Quote?” because I too can assimilate with your troubles of finding an appropriate senior quote to be put in the yearbook. Even though the deadline to submit our senior yearbook quote was a couple of days ago, I still stress whether my quote was good enough or not.
 
One sentence you wrote that stands out for me is, “First off I want the quote to be sufficiently cynical, cynical because the ones that I read in the yearbook this year, for some reason really irritated me. They were too romantic and or idealistic.” I really like this because I, likewise, hated reading super sappy quotes about how our graduation is going to be the end of the road for us, and other things like that.
 
Another sentence that I like was, “The quote also has to be to some degree thought provoking, I don't want to use anything devoid of any higher meaning.”  This really stood out for me because it is important that your yearbook quote isn’t too romantic, but it is also good to keep in mind that it should be somewhat mentally stimulating.
 
I understand exactly what you went through.  I really was anxious for the past couple of weeks while trying to find a yearbook quote that met those expectations.  In the end, I chose a Dr. Seuss quote that was somewhat funny, but it also had some valid meaning to it.  Hopefully, I made the right choice.
 
Thanks for you writing. I look forward to seeing what you write next about anything to do with the yearbook or our religion curriculum at school.

 

John. I definitely know what

Submitted by hannahking on Sun, 2009-09-20 13:57.

John.

I definitely know what you felt like when trying to pick your senior quote. It seemed like there were so many to choose from, but none that fit exactly what I had in mind. Unfortuantely, I'm a big procrastinator so I waited until the day it was due to really start looking. This turned out to be a bad idea, because I was rushed and ended up picking a quote that I may not really want.

I really liked your sentence about quotes being too idealistic or too romantic, because this is a problem I really struggled with. Why would I want a cheesy quote? I know this whole senior quote idea is supposed to be fun and something to remember this part of our lives by, but it just added so much more stress to my life. The biggest problem I had with the whole qoute thing was one simple question: why are they due so early?! It's not even October!

Hopefully we can all just look back and laugh about how unimportant this issue of senior quotes was, but right now it's definitely causing some stress.