Well, it seems a lot of people have their bunch of "favorite quotes". Thanks for all the responses. I've decided to do two things with them. First, a table showing which songs got the most quotes. I was pretty much expecting this, with "Round Here" & "Anna Begins" on top with the most favorite quotes. What did surprise me was the number of people getting lines from "Catapult". Which was cool, since I think that it's one of the Crow's most underated songs. It's got such powerful lines all throughout the song. Second, is well, ALL the quotes sent in and who sent them. I found a lot of lines w/c I never thought of...special mention goes to two people who chose the line from "August and Everything After"....."In August and everything after, I am after everything..." I just love it. Well, on with the quotes...

Round Here - 8
Anna Begins - 7
Catapult - 5
Chelsea - 5
Margery - 4
Rainking - 3
Raining in Baltimore - 3

Ghost Train - 1
Good Luck - 1
Walkaways - 1
Perfect Blue Buildings - 1
Another Horsedreamer's Blues - 1

"...every time she sneezes I believe it's love..."

Jon Senour

"All of the little things that make up a memory like she said..she said she loved to watch me sleep"

"When I think of heaven...I think of you"

"We were perfect when we started, i've been wondering where we've gone"

"I'm in trouble for the things I need, hey monkey don't you wana be needed too?"

"Who's gonna explain this mess to the mother of an ordinary boy? Who was expected to act extra ordinarily"

"Spent twenty-six stiffening years down the drain, Women who will spit in your eye And a drunkard like me gets the worst of your love Good riddance, good luck and good bye"

JW

-When you open up your wings to speak, I wish you'd let me in

-What's life without an occasional surprise?

-All of a sudden she disappears, just yesterday she was here

-if you wrap yourself in daffodils, i will wrap myself in pain and if you're the queen of california baby, i am the king of the rain

carly

-She said "You would like me to walk away You would like me to pack up my bags and walk away" She said "You would like me to tell him goodbye, pack up my bags, and go She said "You would like me to tell him goodbye You would like me to pack up my bags You would like me to go But you know, if I would tell him goodbye, if I pack up my bags, if I would fly away you would not be there" She said "You would not be there, and you could not hurt me" She said "You don't think about that"

-"You see birds drop off your windowsill, pass by the window, plumitting towards the ground, and you don't think about the fact that you could hurt me" "When these birds fall past your window, plumitting towards the ground, you don't think about the fact that you could hurt me" She said "But when these birds fall past your windowsill, plumitting to the ground, you know, that could be me" she said

-Mr. Henderson smiled as the rain came out as it touched down on the sea Oh, the sky burst in and it's just a little loud but it seemed like a lot to me Or you can try your term at the bottom of the line if it seems like the way to go But Mr. Henderson says if you open up your eyes, well there are shutters up in heaven that will open as it all falls down

Holly

'...say my prayers, light myself on fire, and walk out on the wire once again'

' open up your eyes, you could see the flames of your wasted life, you should be ashamed. ' .

' in august and everything after, i'm after everything..'

' and in between the moon and you, the angels get a view, of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.'

kb

"She lives alone on her private archapelago with the palm trees and the seashells, she sits in the waves all day, just like she's scared of dyin' well fuck, I'm scared of dyin', etc..."

"it's good for everybody to hurt somebody once and a while, the things i do to people i love shouldn't be allowed..."

Lianne

"Love like blood is pouring out of me" and "She shaves off a drop of daylight"

"If its love, she says, then we'll have to think about the consequences, and she cant stop shaking and I cant stop touching her...

And every single word of chelsea which tears my heart to pieces everytime I hear it.

Daina

"all everybody really knows for sure is that you're gonna come down"

"when everybody loves me I'm gonna be just about as happy as I can be"

Daina's Friend

"She said, did you think that you were dreaming? I said, no She said, did you think that you were dreaming? I said, no She said, did you think that you were dreaming? I said, sometimes I don't know"
--Round Here, Live from the 10 spot.

"Can't you hear me? Cuz I'm screaming" --Miller's Angels

"I want to be the last thing that you hear when you're falling asleep" --Catapult

"Waiting for the moon to come and light me up inside I am waiting for the telephone to tell me I'm alive"
--Daylight Fading

The entirity of "Raining in Baltimore"

Dresden Craig

"I wanna be the last thing that you hear when you're falling asleep" from Catapult

Eric Londates

"I like what she said, not what it means"

"You get what you pay form but I just had no intention of living this way" "Three thousand five hundred miles away.. but what would you change if you could?"

"Sometimes you do the best you can - sometimes you stand up straight Sometimes you do the things that hurt you - sometimes you stand up straight Sometimes it's just because I love you - sometimes I stand up straight I guess I should love myself a little more Oh, what the fuck, you know I'll stand up straight"

"'Yeah, fuck you, man, you could hurt me'"

"We got little revolvers and stupid choices And no one to say when we're done... Well, I don't wanna bring you down..."

"'You see birds drop off your windowsill, pass by the window, plummeting towards the ground, and you don't think about the fact that you could hurt me When these birds fall past your window, plummeting towards the ground, you don't think about the fact that you could hurt me' She said 'But when these birds fall past your windowsill, plummeting to the ground, you know, that could be me' "

Gabriela

"Round here we talk just like lions, but we sacrifice like lambs..."

"I want to buy me a good heart, and a conscience..."

"You get what you pay for, but I just had no intention of living this way.."

"I never had light in my eyes, anyways..."

Holly

For me, some of the images in CC songs are more powerful than the entire lines, like "perfect blue buildings beside a green apple sea" or "the way that light attaches to a girl" from ALD or "the contrast of white on white" in Round Here.

But, since that doesn't really answer the question, here are some lines:

I want to be the last thing that you hear when you're falling asleep. --Catapult

Would you catch me if I was falling? Kiss me if I was leaving? Or would you hold me cause I'm lonely without you? --Round Here

It's best to kill the ones that matter, Render blind the ones who see. --Margery Dreams of Horses

The light in her eyes goes out; I never had light in my eyes anyways. --Chelsea

Can't you hear me, cause I'm screaming? --Miller's Angels

Jason Dooley

"Every time she sneezes I believe it's love and... oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing" anna begins

and "the smell of hospitals in winter" daylight fading (?)

Joe Masters

"Remember everything," she said "when only memories remain" -- Ghost Train

& on the same lines: "I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass"

Also, since someone mentioned Shallow Days, the line after the one he named: "I'm a very tiny person and it worries me"

Jonothan Eisenman

1.Would you catch me if I was falling?Would you kiss me if I was leaving?Would you hold me because I am lonely? ...without you (from Round Here)

2. It's best to kill the ones that matter, Render blind the ones who see. (from Margery Dreams of Horses)

3. In August and everything after, I am after everything (from August and Everything After)

Jon

Hey, hey, Mr. Freedom, what are we supposed to think? -shallow days

She's riding in black cars and pokes at the sky to see if he can make stars, and people are so unkind. -goodluck

-Nick

"This change I been feeling doesn't make the rain fall." - Walkaways

"It's good for everybody to hurt somebody once in a while. The things I do to people I love shouldn't be allowed." - Chelsea

Pretty much all of Perfect Blue Buildings...

stef

*she sees shooting stars and comet tails, she's got heaven in her eyes

*every time she sneezes i believe its love also,

there is some quote by adam, i think it's from storytellers, but i cant remember off the top of my head, anyway, he is talking about faith and says: "essentially, faith is all about waiting, because once you have something, there's no need to have faith anymore." that really made me think

Matthew A. Lobron

"she said: did you think that you were dreaming? I said: no! did you think that you were dreaming? I said... no... did you think that you were dreaming? I said... sometimes I don't know" From "Round Here", AAW, 10 Spot

"when I think of heaven, I think of you. do you think of me too?" From "Rain King", AAW, Storytellers

A!e Munoz

Step out the front door like a ghost in to the fog, where no one notices the contrast of white on white.

Adam

I guess the line that sticks out in my head is: "Mr Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky, When everybody loves you, son, that's just about as funky as you can be"

Eddie

"And Anna begins to toss and turn Every word is nonsense but I understand..."

That is as close as you can be to someone...

Richard

"Drunken fathers and stupid mothers and boys who can't tell one girl from another."

John