Senior Quotes

The time has come for me to pick a quote for the yearbook. I have no idea what I want to put...song lyrics? a humorous one liner? an inside joke with my friends? something religious? or maybe just "Chris Jacobs" over and over again.

I would like to know what you guys put for your quote to give me ideas.

[color="#cc8899"]Pick something that will still be understandable when you're 50 and don't remember much.

My school didn't do senior quotes.[/COLOR]

Want the respect of all your peers?

"Derp"

Want the respect of all your peers?

"Derp"

I'll consider it

"I pee in butts!" Guaranteed rep get.

Put "Chris Jacobs is awesome and doesn't afraid of anything."

Put "Chris Jacobs is awesome and doesn't afraid of anything."

i think chris jacobs is a pretty cool guy. eh doesn't afraid of anything.

"Boxxy FTW"

WovvLtzChris!

Pick something that describes your personality. An off-handed joke doesn't really work here. Yearbooks at the time you get them are totally worthless. It's just a thing to carry around with your textbooks, and to have your friends sign so you feel cool. You don't really need it till 10-20 years from now, when high school is a distant memory, and you can barely remember the people you went to school with. Then, you open the yearbook, see notes they wrote, and see that quote, and it'll bring back a lot of memories.

That quote is meant to signify YOU, right NOW. In 10 years you will be a different person, but elements of you will still be there. You have no idea what it means to open the book to that quote, and there it is, who you were like 10 years ago.

Then consider that next to putting some random 4chan bull$hit in your yearbook, and you just totally ruined the whole thing. Don't treat this lightly, give it serious thought.

I personally put the quote Tolkien used to describe Arwen in Lord of the Rings. Back then I was just a hormone-crazed teenager, but I always had very vivid romantic fantasies, and sure enough, 10 years later, my writing is most remarkable for its romantic content. Not dumb drivel like what Danielle Steele does, actual romance. Kinda nice to see there were elements of that in me even back then, when I couldn't articulate it yet.

"I lost the game"

I put "Be your own person." Short, simple, and expresses how I feel to some extent. Although, I should have put "Derp."

My senior quote could only have 100 chars and it was this...

Try to find life fun, for things can always get worse. Much worse.

WovvLtzChris!

GGitzHank!!! or pics or gtfo!!! or Rule 34, b!tches!

Pick something that describes your personality. An off-handed joke doesn't really work here. Yearbooks at the time you get them are totally worthless. It's just a thing to carry around with your textbooks, and to have your friends sign so you feel cool. You don't really need it till 10-20 years from now, when high school is a distant memory, and you can barely remember the people you went to school with. Then, you open the yearbook, see notes they wrote, and see that quote, and it'll bring back a lot of memories.

That quote is meant to signify YOU, right NOW. In 10 years you will be a different person, but elements of you will still be there. You have no idea what it means to open the book to that quote, and there it is, who you were like 10 years ago.

Then consider that next to putting some random 4chan bull$hit in your yearbook, and you just totally ruined the whole thing. Don't treat this lightly, give it serious thought.

I personally put the quote Tolkien used to describe Arwen in Lord of the Rings. Back then I was just a hormone-crazed teenager, but I always had very vivid romantic fantasies, and sure enough, 10 years later, my writing is most remarkable for its romantic content. Not dumb drivel like what Danielle Steele does, actual romance. Kinda nice to see there were elements of that in me even back then, when I couldn't articulate it yet.

[color="#cc8899"]I disagree -
If you are a silly, random, lighthearted person, it reflects perfectly on you to put something silly, random, lighthearted. My parents always got mad at me when I wouldn't dress up for school pictures. Why? Because, as I attempted (and failed) to explain to them, it wouldn't be me in the picture. I don't dress up normally, so dressing up for a picture is a lie. They'd look back at it and remember someone who didn't exist. I'd much rather have a picture taken of me as I am from day to day, the real me, not a fake created only to look pleasant for 1 moment in time.[/COLOR]

[color="#cc8899"]I disagree -
If you are a silly, random, lighthearted person, it reflects perfectly on you to put something silly, random, lighthearted. My parents always got mad at me when I wouldn't dress up for school pictures. Why? Because, as I attempted (and failed) to explain to them, it wouldn't be me in the picture. I don't dress up normally, so dressing up for a picture is a lie. They'd look back at it and remember someone who didn't exist. I'd much rather have a picture taken of me as I am from day to day, the real me, not a fake created only to look pleasant for 1 moment in time.[/COLOR]

If you're a silly, lighthearted person, then saying something like that DOES describe you properly. I am telling him to pick something fitting, not quote dense lines from Tolstoy. I just think picking somehting random becuase you didn't feel like spending an hour to find something appropriate is not a good idea. Asking people on the internet to help you pick something, anything, struck me as not taking it seriously rather than beeing a lighthearted person and not wanting to put down something dense.

Put "Chris Jacobs is awesome and doesn't afraid of anything."

Don't do that unless you want the yearbook people to "correct" your grammar. I put mine as "All your base are belong to us" (I couldn't think of anything else, ok?) When I got my yearbook, I saw that it got "corrected" to "All your bases belong to us".

Don't do that unless you want the yearbook people to "correct" your grammar. I put mine as "All your base are belong to us" (I couldn't think of anything else, ok?) When I got my yearbook, I saw that it got "corrected" to "All your bases belong to us".

Well, in their defense, most people won't know that a Sega Genesis game had a spelling error that became famous. If you DO want such a quote, you can still get it -- go to the yearbook's office and specifically request the "misspelling."

Don't do that unless you want the yearbook people to "correct" your grammar. I put mine as "All your base are belong to us" (I couldn't think of anything else, ok?) When I got my yearbook, I saw that it got "corrected" to "All your bases belong to us".

I am a part of the yearbook staff, I will make sure that doesn't happen to the idiots that put memes in their quotes.

I'm considering taking "Be your own person." because this year has been a year of self discovery for me.

Asking people on the internet to help you pick something, anything, struck me as not taking it seriously rather than beeing a lighthearted person and not wanting to put down something dense.

if I wanted LOL quotes I would have posted in the funhouse, but I obviously still got them here
I also wasn't asking for help to pick something, but more along the lines of what you said in your previous post.

I am a part of the yearbook staff, I will make sure that doesn't happen to the idiots that put memes in their quotes.

I'm considering taking "Be your own person." because this year has been a year of self discovery for me.

if I wanted LOL quotes I would have posted in the funhouse, but I obviously still got them here
I also wasn't asking for help to pick something, but more along the lines of what you said in your previous post.

If you got what you wanted, what's wrong with some LOL to go with it? Why would I tell you all that stuff just to switch to "go with GGitzHank" in the next post? I am not a greying philosopher, I am a guy taking a break from work to help you. Take it for what it is.

By the way, in high school and college practically every year is a year of self-discovery because you will probably will change significantly each year. A high school freshman is usually way less mature than a high school senior, but when the senior goes to college, he's green next to the college seniors.

You should probably pick something other than "be your own person." People tell other people to "be themselves," but it's seriously the most vague and least helpful advice or commentary there is. Every person anywhere is being themselves, at every given time. If a person is tight-assed and his true personality is completely repressed, or if he appears boring to some people despite actually being vivid and interesting, he is still "being himself" because he hasn't learned to have confidence yet, and the repression is part of who he is. Stuff like that, and learning from stuff like that, is every bit as much a part of learning and growing as getting a diamond ring and proposing to your girlfriend. All your experiences are part of who you are -- what are those experiences, and what have you learned from them? The answer is not "be your own person," it's something actually having to do with YOU, and only you know what that is.