I'll Call It Like I See It

by sheila morris

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  • CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: THIRD ANNUAL CYBERSPACE AWARDS FOR MEMORABLE QUOTES


    Happy Days are here again! It’s time for the Third Annual Cyberspace Awards for Memorable Quotes…and this year we will have Prizes for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd – place quotes as determined  by the official impartial judge: me.

    The rules are simple. Send as many of your favorite quotes as you want to my secret email address smortex@aol.com. Be sure to put your name on the submission and credit your source on the quote if you have one. If you don’t, just make something up.

    You may not submit ones that you sent in previous contests. I know, I know. You really liked the ones you sent last year, but branch out – think outside the box, as the memorable quote goes – and find another one.

    The top ten quotes will be published here on the blog. Hooray!! The 3rd place winner will receive an autographed copy of I’ll Call It Like I See It: A Lesbian Speaks Out (my personal favorite), 2nd place gets an autographed copy of my most recent book  The Short Side of Time, and 1st place wins the audio version of Deep in the Heart: A Memoir of Love and Longing read by the author who is moi.

    This year there will be no separate contest for cemetery tombstones – they will be allowed in the memorable quote contest, however. So walk through your favorite cemeteries (JB) and pick out a good tombstone quote.

    The deadline is October 27th – two weeks from today – so put your thinking caps on, as Granny Selma used to say when she was in her right mind, and get those submissions coming in.

    To jump-start your imagination, I’ll share a new quote that I saw minutes ago:

    “One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.”

    ————- Al David

    Throw down the remote, give Facebook a mini-break, grab your journals and get going…have fun and Good Luck!!

    P.S. At least we can think about something other than the news headlines for a little while.

     

     

     

     

     

  • OMG – I Forgot to Send in My Memorable Quote for the Contest


    Greetings, cyberspace followers: Some of my people have neglected to send in their quotes for the Second Annual Cyberspace Memorable Quotes contest!

    Deadline is today June 30th at midnight – whenever midnight is for you!!

    Remember to send to my secret email address: smortex@aol.com.

    Hurry, hurry, hurry…I am waiting for your quotes!!

    Second category added: Favorite Tombstone Sayings

     

  • Call for Submissions: Second Annual Cyberspace Awards for Memorable Quotes


    Well, it’s that time of the year again – time flies when you’re having fun – a penny saved is a penny earned.

    Aha! We are off and running for the Second Annual Cyberspace Awards for Memorable Quotes. Who can ever forget the excitement of last year’s contest with its fabulous quotes that became internationally applauded through the power of  infinite cyberspace…

    I have made a slight change this year – we now have TWO Categories of Awards. In addition to our Most Memorable Quotes Category, I have added Most Memorable Quotes on Tombstones as a result of Jim Blanton’s infamous hilarious tombstone supplemental sayings in last year’s contest.

    Rule Review: Sorry to say but there will be no Cash Awards again this year. Unfortunately, the cash designated for the awards this year has been paid to a variety of special causes which include me, Teresa and our three needy dogs. There’s always next year.

    Deadline: June 30th. And I see I am giving an additional ten days notice for everyone to be putting on their thinking caps since some criticism arose over last year’s short notice.

    Please send your submissions to my very secret email address: smortex@aol.com.

    If you are submitting to both categories, please designate which is which.

    The top ten Quotes in each category will be selected by the same judge as our previous contest – that would be me. I will publish the Top 10 winners in this blog within a very respectable time frame.

    To get everyone started, I will share a couple of quotes I read recently in a little book of quotes entitled Reflections on Life and Living by James A. Williamson.

    There is more to life than increasing its speed.  (Gandhi)

    It is not wise to underestimate a so-called heathen.

    It is never too late to begin.

    And with that thought, I urge you to get those Quotes coming in!!

    PS. No repeats from the previous year, please.

     

     

  • Just Messing Around – Call for Submissions


    Whenever my mother wanted to emphasize a point she knew I disagreed with she would look at me and interrupt herself by adding the words “to me.”  For example, let’s say she wanted me to wear a pink silk blouse with a matching pink silk skirt and possibly even pink high heels to church on Sunday morning.  She knew that I hated to wear pink so she would say, “Pink, to me, is a great color for you to wear.”

    Blogging, to me, is like running my own publishing business.  I choose the layout and design, colors, titles, media, topics and words for three blogs and then I publish them.  My overhead is cheap, and my publishing schedule is flexible. The only missing component in my blogging business is income, but then no business is perfect.

    Today my chosen topic is Memorable Quotes.  I collect Memorable Quotes like Teresa collects books, costume jewelry, vintage hats, old tools, picture frames, flower pots, suitcases, rolling pins, scarves, socks, shoes, furniture with special emphasis on washers and dryers, pocketbooks, purses and her latest collection this week of approximately 10,000 match book covers she acquired from an estate sale.  Memorable Quotes are less expensive and require less storage and maintenance.  I’m just sayin’.

    I like to feature a Memorable Quote on this blog at all times, but it’s not highlighted and the casual reader may not even notice it.  I gather quotes from songs, books, other blogs, movies, TV shows – really random sources.   In past posts I’ve quoted Ayn Rand, Helen Keller, Pearl S. Buck, Toni Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, Garth Brooks,  Zora Neale Hurston, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Maya Angelou and countless others.

    This week T and I watched the second season of Orange is the New Black on Netflix.  We were late to this cultural party but are up to speed in record time.  Frankly, I’m not sure how we will survive until Season Three which will be released in June of 2015.  2015?!  I digress.

    The characters in Orange/Black are classic and the acting fabulous, but the words are genuine collectibles:

    Most people are better in the abstract.

      I fell in with the bad nuns.

    A lot of people are stupid – and still manage to live full productive lives.

    While I am diligently going through life collecting Memorable Quotes, the thought occurs to me that I may not be the only Quote Collector in cyberspace so I have created the First Annual Cyberspace Award Contest for Memorable Quotes.

    If you have a Memorable Quote and would like to see it published on this blog, please submit it to me at smortex@aol.com. which is my secret email address.  These will be forwarded to an impartial judge who will recommend ten for publication.  Not really.  I’m kidding.  The selection will be totally subjective and done by me!

    Each published Memorable Quote will also receive $250.  Not really, either.  No cash awards will be made.  You will receive the satisfaction of knowing your Memorable Quote is Memorable to me, too.

    Deadline for this contest:  June 30th.  I know, I know.  So it’ s a little short notice, but I thought you probably either had one or you don’t and if you don’t that’s ok.  Plus, I just had the contest idea when I was writing this post a few minutes ago.

    To me, there’s plenty of time so get those quotes rolling in.

    P.S. Funny about that pink color thing.  Teresa bought me a pink Life is Good t-shirt not long ago, and we both decided it was a good color for me.  Maybe it was the pink high heels I hated.