Famous Quotes Game - Page 39

mothraisnotapokemon · 09-23-2011, 06:35 PM

"With great power comes great responsibility"
Hint not who you think

Ivas · 09-23-2011, 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mothraisnotapokemon

"With great power comes great responsibility"
Hint not who you think

This one is from Franklin Roosevelt.

New quote: "Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee."

Ivas · 09-25-2011, 09:53 PM

Okay, time's up. It was said by John Donne in his famous poem of the same title.

New quote: "Do you want to buy a vowel?"

Ivas · 09-27-2011, 07:17 PM

Dang, dudes! That was Pat Sayjack (spelling?)

Re-start quote: "Read my lips, no new taxes."

Ladybugsmom · 09-28-2011, 09:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ivas

Dang, dudes! That was Pat Sayjack (spelling?)

Re-start quote: "Read my lips, no new taxes."

George H. W. Bush.

OK, Ivas, time for your thinking cap!
"When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

Ivas · 09-28-2011, 07:10 PM

Aw, c'mon, that's too easy. It was said by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle through his fictional character, Sherlock Holmes.

New quote: "Is everybody happy?" Hint: it was routinely said by a big band leader of the 1930's. Furthermore, it was said in a falsetto voice.

Berean · 09-28-2011, 08:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ivas

Aw, c'mon, that's too easy. It was said by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle through his fictional character, Sherlock Holmes.

Spock also said it.

Ladybugsmom · 09-29-2011, 12:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ivas

Aw, c'mon, that's too easy. It was said by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle through his fictional character, Sherlock Holmes.

New quote: "Is everybody happy?" Hint: it was routinely said by a big band leader of the 1930's. Furthermore, it was said in a falsetto voice.

Dang! That was too easy for ya!

Yours was Barney the purple dinosaur!

No, wait, you said 1930's....
That would be Ted Lewis (he played the clarinet as well as leading the band....)

"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."

Ivas · 09-29-2011, 07:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ladybugsmom

Dang! That was too easy for ya!

Yours was Barney the purple dinosaur!

No, wait, you said 1930's....
That would be Ted Lewis (he played the clarinet as well as leading the band....)

"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."

Wow, very impressive; it was indeed Ted Lewis. Doesn't he seem laughably kitch to the modern audience?

I'm gonna' hafta' think on your quote.

Ladybugsmom · 09-30-2011, 09:09 AM

Need a hint???? A big player in civil rights.....

Ivas · 09-30-2011, 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ladybugsmom

Need a hint???? A big player in civil rights.....

Hmm, only Americans consult newspapers in that manner, so it couldn't be Gandhi or Mandela. It's too calm to be H. Rapp Brown, Stokely Carmichael, or Malcolm X. This leaves Martin Luther King Jr. Right?

Ladybugsmom · 09-30-2011, 10:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ivas

Hmm, only Americans consult newspapers in that manner, so it couldn't be Gandhi or Mandela. It's too calm to be H. Rapp Brown, Stokely Carmichael, or Malcolm X. This leaves Martin Luther King Jr. Right?

Try again.... He wasn't on the front lines with those guys, but he DID listen to what they all had to say...

Ivas · 10-01-2011, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Ladybugsmom

Try again.... He wasn't on the front lines with those guys, but he DID listen to what they all had to say...

Okay, so he listened to these cats, therefore he must be an English speaker, good. Since some of these fellahs did not come into the public eye until after 1964; it couldn't be JFK, he was dead by then. I say, lo and behold, it was LBJ, yes?

Ladybugsmom · 10-01-2011, 09:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ivas

Okay, so he listened to these cats, therefore he must be an English speaker, good. Since some of these fellahs did not come into the public eye until after 1964; it couldn't be JFK, he was dead by then. I say, lo and behold, it was LBJ, yes?

Nope... I think I stumped you!!!

Chief Justice Earl Warren...

Now I need to come up with another one, see if I can stump you again..

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Ivas el Ruco Drives: 2010 Camaro SS (now runnin' TENS ) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Fontana, CA Posts: 7,388	Aw, c'mon, that's too easy. It was said by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle through his fictional character, Sherlock Holmes. New quote: "Is everybody happy?" Hint: it was routinely said by a big band leader of the 1930's. Furthermore, it was said in a falsetto voice.