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

Nominating Rules

 * 1) Don't take the word "Quote" literally. Narrative passages can be just as quoteworthy as dialogue.
 * 2) Please identify the story that the Quote comes from.
 * 3) You may nominate Quotes from other people's stories without permission (but see rule #5 below).
 * 4) 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 Rule #6 below. (updated 12 November 2013)
 * 5) 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 remove that nominee for any reason or for none, with no questions asked.
 * 6) 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.
 * 7) Please limit nominations to 100 words or less. "Near-miss" Quotes that exceed this limit by only a few words may be allowed at the Ballot Administrator's discretion.
 * 8) Please be aware of spoiler potential when nominating a Quote from someone else's story.
 * 9) No in-jokes, please. Quotes must be understandable outside the context of the story, except as noted below.
 * 10) Quotes must appear on an actual story page. Ancillary materials from character pages, blog-based previews, etc. are ineligible.
 * 11) 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. This includes collaborating authors. (updated 12 November 2013)
 * 4) If you nominate a Quote from a story that you did not write or collaborate on, then you may also vote for it.
 * 5) 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?

In the event of a tie, the Ballot Administrator will break the tie if he hasn't already voted. Otherwise, the ballot will remain open until the tie is broken.

Theme
Due to chronic lack of participation, Featured Quote does not currently use themes.

Nominations
Enter nominations below, with new nominations at the bottom.

The Temptation of Cody
“Hey, Cody, got a minute?”

His gloomy reverie interrupted, Cody looked up toward the now-familiar voice, and saw the now-familiar half-Asian face that went with it.

“Sure, Heather. What’s up?”

The queen bee sat down beside him and said, “I have a business proposition for you.”

“I’m listening.”

“You’ve made it pretty clear that you’re into Gwen. I don’t pretend to understand why, but I’m willing to help you there.”

“Cool. What do you have in mind?”

“I’ll admit that it’s looking like Trent’s aced you out,” Heather began. “But let’s suppose, hypothetically, for the sake of argument, that Guitar Guy were to go home tomorrow.”


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

Support

 * 1) One of my personal favorite scenes <3  Space was here  some time ago   and he wrote stuff.  21:48, December 1, 2013 (UTC)
 * 2) OMG OMG OMG! <3  Hey I'm Alex!  And I Wanna Be Famous!  01:11, December 2, 2013 (UTC)
 * 3) That was a game changing moment!  :D  Jay JLOM  The farm was used to produce produce. xD  00:47, December 21, 2013 (UTC)
 * 4) --Tyler.woodward.125 (talk) 02:39, December 23, 2013 (UTC)

A beige escalation
Heather pretends to be swimming in the pool. LeShawna presses all the buttons at once. Heather dives deep into the geckos. LeShawna runs into the burning trailers. Heather does rhythmic swimming in the pool. LeShawna dances inside of a burning trailer. Heather eats a gecko. LeShawna eats a burning stick. They exchange another glare as Chris looks on in complete amazement. The girls finally walk up to one another, Heather covered with slimy geckos and LeShawna covered with third degree burns. They glare furiously into each other's eyes for a few seconds and then faint. The score is 7-4 for the Gophers.


 * —from Jkl's Total Drama Island, nominated by the author. 102 words, but nothing ventured...

Support

 * 1) DRAMA!  xD  Jay JLOM  The farm was used to produce produce. xD  00:45, December 21, 2013 (UTC)

Gladys's Amazing Social Game
“Gladys, you obviously used your sister to get this far,” Savanna started.

“False,” Gladys started.

“Shut up, I’m talking,” Savanna said. “Anyway, you just didn’t play the game very well. You didn’t play at all. It was just you and your sister being loud the entire time.”

“You don’t know me! You weren’t even in the game for that long!” Gladys replied.

“Do you even understand-“

“You can sit down. I have nothing to say to you, girl,” Gladys continued.


 * —from Total Drama Flashback, nominated by the author

Support

 * 1) Gladys seems like a Queen :)    Z a c  A tt a c k     Rawr 12:34, December 13, 2013 (UTC)
 * 2) Yes... just yes  Space was here  some time ago   and he wrote stuff.  16:02, January 1, 2014 (UTC)

The Most Popular Thing in The Meadow
Pixie, Kimmi and Simone were hiding in the bushes as the trio rewatched the footage from their first day, where Colin was soaked in his boxers. “Oh sweet honeysuckle, that boy is fine,” Pixie belted on the last word.

“I wouldn’t mind being bff’s with those pecks,” Kimmi sighed lifting her hands as she imagined groping the muscles.

Simone blushed before shutting the camera, much to the surprise of the other girls. “We were watching that!” They moaned.

“I … uh I know. But my battery. Yeah! My battery is almost dead,” she lied.

--- From Total Drama Blossoming, nominated by the author.

Support

 * 1) --Tyler.woodward.125 (talk) 02:40, December 23, 2013 (UTC)

A Bright Winter's Morning
[It was] a beautifully sunny, though chilly, winter morning. The air was still, … the bright sun was shining on the windswept snow, and the rainbows were sparkling back from the ice crystals.

[…The roaches] continued to perch on their grass blades in awe for several moments more. From this vantage point, they were able to see clear across to the bright white ridge of hills nearer their former home, as well as down the valley to the large body of water. They admired the bright blue sky, the puffy white clouds high above, and the silence of the outdoors.


 * --from The Beasts of Wawanakwa, "The Cockroach's Tale", part 1: Speaking English, nominated by the author

I entered this for the Christmas morning fuzzies. ;)

Catapults And Pink Paint
"Okay everyone, we don't need a fancy cart, we just need a standard cart that all of us can get in," Courtney instructed.

"Can we have a catapult?" Tyler asked.

"Why?" Courtney asked.

"So we can fire stuff at the other team to distract them," Tyler told her.

"Hmm, that's kind of a good idea, fine, we add a catapult and ammo, but nothing else to the cart," Courtney said.

"I guess that rules out pink paint and sparkles," Lindsay muttered to herself.


 * ''--from Total Drama Action... Sorta, nominated by theauthor'm