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Favorite Quotes

posted 19 years ago by cd3reids
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If you could pick your favorite quote(s) from Ode to Billy Joe, what would it be?
I have a few, but here's mine-

Billie Joe: OK, Bobbie Lee. By now your papa surely knows who I am.
Bobbie Lee: Oh, he knows who you are. He just doesn’t know what you are.
Billie Joe: That very well may be. Still, you inform your papa that I am comin’ to call.
Bobbie Lee: You don’t seem to understand, fool. My papa’s problem is not with you. His problem is with me. And the fact that I’m only…
Billy Joe: Fifteen. Yes, I know. You’re also 32, and you best start using them real quickly before they go bad and fall off. Miss Hartley, I shall arrive at your home at seven p.m. this very evening.
Bobbie Lee: You would be wise to make no such personal appearance.
Billy Joe: Seven p.m. On the nose. And you please inform your papa that I am coming to call, I would appreciate some iced tea, as befits a gentleman caller. With lemon and sugar. And a straw, if you got one.

Bobbie Lee: Billie Joe, we are making progress. Sneaking up on things, gaining ground. The plumbings in, and you're next.
Billie Joe: Oh...make it four aspirins.
Bobbie Lee: Well you should be taking encouragement from what I'm tellin' you.
Billie Joe: How can I take encouragement when I'm not allowed into your house until after the plumbing?
Bobbie Lee: Well when you consider that nothing has been allowed in our house since the piano, you'll take heart.
Billie Joe: Make that six aspirins...and an enima.
Bobbie Lee: Oh d*mn! That's Brother Taylor.
Billie Joe: But we're not doing anything.
Bobbie Lee: True, but no man can be ordeamed as a Baptist minister unless he's ready to expect the worst of his congregation.
Billie Joe: Well, let's just pretend that we're not with each other.
Bobbie Lee: You'll never fool Brother Taylor.
Billie Joe: (sarcastic)Oh, I'm just trying to protect your reputation, young lady, knowing well that in your heart, I come after the piano...(walks away and turns around)and the plumbing.

Bobbie Lee: Why is this happenin' to us?
Billie Joe: No, not us. You're fine. You're beautiful. You're ready to fly...and you're goin' to.

[–] Lets_talk_about_that 19 years ago

At night in the woods...

Bobbie Lee: "I wish I could understand..."

Billie Joe: "I wish *I* could."

[–] iLoveBillyJoeMcAllister 19 years ago

Mine is "You're fine. You're beautiful. You're ready to fly,and you're going to" and "No matter what I say, no matter what I do, please remember that I love you" These quotes have always got me to crying when I hear Robby/Billy Joe say this because I know what he is reffering to and I just feel so sorry for him.

[–] official_kilt_inspector 18 years ago

There isn't enough time or space to write all my favorite quotes, so I will try to control myself:
Bobbie Lee:"Nothing fortifying has passed my lips but a Pepsi Cola"
Bobbie Lee: I am not swimming upstream to mate with you Billy Joe, that's for salmon".
Becky Thompson to her mother after church on Sunday as they are speaking with James, Bobbie Lee's brother: "Momma, James has been favorin' someone else-which is his privilege"
Bobbie Lee's momma speaking to her inside the henhouse:"Sometimes when the sap gets to risin' a girl's has to count to ten" Bobbie Lee responds: "Momma, I am way past a hundred".

I could go on and on but I have some errands to run now so I'll be back!

[–] Lap0990 18 years ago

When the person above quoted the line about counting to ten it was said incorrectly. The line goes: "Sometime when the sap gets to risin', sometimes a girl has to count to ten." I just wanted to add that because I'm about as big a Ode to Billy Joe fan as you can get.

[–] ctabor-1 18 years ago

"I don't think that you can be an ordained Baptist minister without first thinking the worst of your congregation."

[–] columntwentyfive 12 years ago

Bobbie Lee: I'm only fifteen; what do I know about the world?