Forum:Featured Quote

The stories on this wiki have tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of memorable moments, be they dialogue or narrative. But now we're about to find a favorite! Nominate a quote that meets the guidelines below, and see if it comes out on top! Vote either Support or Oppose.

Previous Winners
See: Forum:List of Featured Quotes

Rules
'''PLEASE READ THE RULES CAREFULLY, BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENT FROM THE RULES FOR OTHER FEATURES. RULES UNIQUE TO FEATURED QUOTE ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN RED '''

Nominating Rules

 * 1) Featured Quote has TWO voting cycles per month, instead of one.
 * 2) Don't take the word "Quote" literally. Narrative passages can be just as quoteworthy as dialogue.
 * 3) Please identify the story that the Quote comes from.
 * 4) If there is a stated Theme (see below), then nominees must fit that theme.
 * 5) You may nominate Quotes from other people's stories without permission, unless the Theme states otherwise. Of course, you can also nominate Quotes from your own stories unless the Theme states otherwise.
 * 6)  If you nominate a Quote from a story that you did not write or collaborate on, then you must identify yourself as the nominator. This is necessary because of Voting Rule #5.
 * 7) A story's author has veto power over Quotes from that story. If you object to a particular Quote that someone else has nominated from your story (e.g. because it gives away a spoiler), then you may delete that nominee for any reason or for none, with no questions asked.
 * 8) Only one Quote per story per nominator. In other words, two people could each nominate a Quote from Story X, but one person may not nominate two Quotes from it. One person could, however, nominate one Quote from Story X and one Quote from Story Y.
 * 9) Please limit nominations to 75 words or less. "Near-miss" Quotes that exceed this limit by only a few words may be allowed at the Ballot Administrator's discretion.
 * 10) Please be aware of spoiler potential when nominating a Quote from someone else's story.
 * 11) No in-jokes, please. Quotes must be understandable outside the context of the story, except as noted below.
 * 12) Quotes must appear on an actual story page. Ancillary materials from character pages, blog-based previews, etc. are ineligible.
 * 13) Quotes must be formatted exactly as they are in the story, except as noted below. The easiest way to comply with this rule is by copy-and-paste.
 * If you need to add tags to identify speakers or subjects, please italicize them.
 * If you need to add narrative text to make a line understandable out of context, enclose the added text in brackets [thusly]. This is standard journalistic practice for quoting things. Note that such added text should be only a few words, if that.
 * If a Quote is in past tense in the story, it must be in past tense on the ballot. Ditto for other tenses.
 * A Quote may be shortened to meet length limitations. If you do this, replace the removed portion with an ellipsis (...).

Voting Rules

 * 1) You must have an account and 100 total edits to vote. You must be logged in and your vote must be signed so the administrators can verify voter eligibility.
 * 2) Nominees receiving 5 or more Oppose votes may be removed from the ballot at the discretion of the administrators.
 * 3) Vote on as many Quotes as you wish, but only once on each. You may not vote for a Quote from your own story  except as noted below .
 * 4) If a Quote from your story was nominated by someone else who isn't a collaborating partner on the story, then you may vote for it.
 * 5) If you nominate a Quote from a story that you did not write or collaborate on, then you may also vote for it.
 * 6) The following rules must be followed when Opposing a quote:
 * You must provide a reason for your vote. "No" and "Sorry" are not reasons.
 * Oppose votes that appear to be needlessly harsh or that don't observe basic rules of civility will be deleted. If it's worth saying, it can be said politely.
 * Please try to provide constructive criticism. This is the whole point of the Oppose option, because Oppose votes aren't actually counted.
 * "I want another quote to win" votes will be deleted. If you want another Quote to win, then cast a Support vote for the other Quote and leave it at that.
 * "This isn't funny" is only a valid reason to Oppose if the Quote was meant to be funny. Votes opposing an obviously dramatic quote on the grounds that "it's not funny" will be deleted.
 * Your opinion of the character(s) associated with a quote is NOT relevant to the merits of the quote itself. Featured Character is a separate ballot, so don't shoot the message.
 * "There are better quotes from this story" votes will be deleted because that's irrelevant to the merits of the Quote that actually got nominated. Remember, you can nominate Quotes from other people's stories--so if you think there's a better Quote that's not on the ballot, then why not nominate it yourself?

Theme
For November 16-30, the theme is Food and Eating, in recognition of the U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving. (Nobody does gluttony like Americans.) Nominations must be related in some way to food or the consumption thereof (or, for that matter, to its expulsion by an angry digestive system).

Cooking challenges and eating challenges are the most obvious places to find quotes fitting this theme, but there are many other possibilities.

If you would like to suggest a theme for a future ballot, leave your suggestion on the ballot administrator's talk page. (Note: please don't suggest "competition stories only", "dialogue only" or "funny quotes only", because those types tend to dominate the no-theme ballots and so don't need their own themes.) Coming themes include:


 * December 16-31: Beginnings and Endings (for the changing of the year)
 * February 1-14: Love and Romance (for Valentine's Day)

Themes that will definitely be used at some point, but who knows when, include:


 * Hall of Fame (Featured Stories only)
 * Serious Business (no funny quotes)
 * Done Deals (finished stories only)
 * Unfinished Business (in-progress stories only)
 * Noncompetition Stories
 * Tearjerkers
 * Other people's stories (third-party nominations only)

Theme ideas that may or may not be used one of these days include:


 * Heirs To the Throne (passages from stories on the current month's Featured Story ballot)
 * Fourth Wall Breakers
 * Narrative (i.e. no dialogue, although first-person narration might be allowed)
 * Whistling Past the Graveyard (funny quotes in unfunny situations)
 * First Person narration (if not included in the Narrative theme)
 * Sacrifice

Nominations
Enter nominations below.

No sympathy for vegetarians
“Girl, did you hear a word I just said? Hatchet thundered. “’Cause I don’t recall saying that I wanted to hear about special dietary needs, and that goes double for preferences! It won’t kill you to stuff down a few animal byproducts!”

Hatchet’s expression then softened, and his glare gave way to an unpleasantly expectant smirk. In a normal tone, he said, “Trust me, the carnivores won’t have it any easier than you.”


 * --from The Legend of Total Drama Island, nominated by the author

Support

 * 1) 'Cause he's my hubby, and carnivores get byproducts XD JustLittleOlMe  Lil   Jay JLOM   Mrs. Gideon  20:47, November 16, 2011 (UTC)
 * 2) As a borderline vegetarian, and a Chef Hatchet fan, I feel I must support this.- The Anonymous User 21:49, November 16, 2011 (UTC)
 * 3) For the record, I don't approve of the nepotism that Lil is demonstrating in supporting this. Just kidding. XD This is an awesome quote. -Lalainee You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs.22:06, November 16, 2011 (UTC)
 * 4) XD The ending line about the carnivores not having it any easier just cracks a smile on my face.  Your heart, your heart abandoned. Your wrong now bear the shame. Like dead trees in cold December nothing but ashes remain. Oh Ember, so warm and tender, you will remember my name!   06:19, November 18, 2011 (UTC)

Oppose
(NAV) Actually, Lal, there are other passages that I would have preferred to nominate, but they were all too long. That's a downside of my writing style. As for the nepotism, wifey tends to cast her support widely, so it's all good. Gideoncrawle I have a song to sing, O!  Sing me your song, O!  A wandering minstrel, I--  01:24, November 17, 2011 (UTC)

Carlos and His Buffalo Wings
"Buffalo wings!" Carlos cheered.

He started shoving the buffalo wings in his mouth.

"How does it taste, Carlos?" Joyce asked.

Carlos continued eating.

"Carlos?" Joyce asked. "Hello?"

"Can we have some?" Genevieve asked.

Carlos continued ignoring them and eating. Everyone groaned.

-Total Drama Country Club, nominated by the author

Support

 * 1) XD This reminds me of some people I've known. JustLittleOlMe  Lil   Jay JLOM   Mrs. Gideon  20:46, November 16, 2011 (UTC)
 * 2) Buffalo's have wings now! :P  Glinda rules!  00:24, November 18, 2011 (UTC)
 * 3) Now I'm really hungry :O. XD But the quote is really funny.  Your heart, your heart abandoned. Your wrong now bear the shame. Like dead trees in cold December nothing but ashes remain. Oh Ember, so warm and tender, you will remember my name!   06:20, November 18, 2011 (UTC)
 * 4) SG @Jay. :P Toadgamer80 The jester of Tortuga. 20:51, November 18, 2011 (UTC)

Bread, eggs, milk and world domination
"Thank you so much for letting me use your computer, Julie," SG says, handing her back her purple laptop.

"No problem, Puddin," Julie says, taking back her computer and handing it to Sierra. "You didn't look at my Word documents, did you?"

"No," SG replies.

"What's on them?" Nellie asks, even though she doesn't really care.

"Oh nothing," Julie replies. "Just my alien master's plans for world domination. And my GROCERY SHOPPING LIST!"


 * --from Total Drama What The Heck?, nominated by Gideon

ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTE: As this passage illustrates, a nomination doesn't have to actually be about food to be eligible. There has to be some connection, but it can be peripheral.

Support

 * 1) Hahahaha. Julie... XDD-- Radicalm18 "Nice guys finish last,  that's why I'll treat you like trash." 05:00, November 18, 2011 (UTC)
 * 2) XD! One of my favorite Julie quotes. It shows just how random she is. The irony of this quote is that Julie has an interaction of the extraterrestrial kind a little later in the chapter where they visit Mexico.  Your heart, your heart abandoned. Your wrong now bear the shame. Like dead trees in cold December nothing but ashes remain. Oh Ember, so warm and tender, you will remember my name!  05:30, November 18, 2011 (UTC)
 * 3) XDD Julie's crazy! And so much fun! :D JustLittleOlMe Lil   Jay JLOM   Mrs. Gideon  16:13, November 18, 2011 (UTC)

Campfire Reminiscences
One lone buck, however, had really enjoyed the company of the kids in the past, and stayed out of sight but close by. Soon the kids were all near the fire-pit by the docks. One of his favorite kids had loved feeding him lightly toasted marshmallows and graham crackers here, and, even though those were a sticky mess, this buck started to drool when he saw the kids were all sitting around the pit.


 * --from The Buck's Tale (Chapter 2 of The Beasts of Wawanakwa), nominated by the author

Smoothie Guy's Revenge
The smoothie guy comes in, wearing a sandwich board. "Who wants some noodles in a cup? Noodles in a cup for sale! They're only $4.99 plus tax."

Kavren grins. "Haw."

"You don't charge tax for food, moron." says Elle.

"I do, whether you like it or not." says the smoothie guy.

-from Total Drama Revolution, nominated by the author

(I couldn't think of anything else food-related, so here this is. Let the opposes roll in. xD)

Support
Just Ice1 22:31, November 18, 2011 (UTC)

Oppose
(NAV) Hey, a hopeless nomination has long been an accepted way to publicize a story. Gideoncrawle I have a song to sing, O!  Sing me your song, O!  A wandering minstrel, I--  22:31, November 18, 2011 (UTC)