Forrest Gump’S ‘Life Is Like A Box Of Chocolates’ Prop Sells For £20,500 On Valentine’S Day

“My mama always said, life was like a box a chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”        Forrest Gump (actor Tom Hanks)        In the 1994 film Forrest Gump        These lines are usually misquoted as “Life is lượt thích a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going khổng lồ get.”  And, both versions are different than what Forrest says in the 1986 novel

“LIFE IS like A BOX OF CHOCOLATES...BUT 2020 IS NOTHING BUT NUTS.”            A sign on a 2020 Halloween installation in Medina, Ohio, which features a life-size doll version of Forrest Gump on a park bench. A photo of the installation was included in an article on the Cleveland.com website posted in September 2020.

“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.”           Leonard Nimoy        American actor & author, especially known for his portrayal of the Vulcan character Spock in the Star Trek TV series và movies        Nimoy posted these moving words on his popular Twitter feed the night of February 22, 2015. It was his last tweet. Early that morning he was rushed lớn the hospital. A few days later he died, at age 83, from end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The letters “LLAP” at the kết thúc of the tweet were his shorthand initials for “Live long và prosper,” the popular catchphrase he used in many Star Trek episodes và films. Nimoy first spoke the line in the “Amok Time” episode of the original Star Trek series, aired on September 15, 1967, as Episode 1 of Season 2.

“Life is not lượt thích a box of chocolates. A box of chocolates is all good. I mean, it would be like a box of chocolates if there was a occasional turd.”          Bill Maher         American comedian & talk show host         A phản hồi Maher made on an episode of his first major TV show Politically Incorrect. (I watched that ep và wrote down the quip, but I forgot to chú ý the date. The show originally aired from 1997 to lớn 2002.)

“Forrest Gump’s mother had a lot of catchy sayings. I never really understood any of them. Life is not lượt thích a box of chocolates. Life is more lượt thích a wad of gum stuck to the bottom of your favorite pair of shoes. The more you try lớn clean up the mess, the stickier it becomes.”          Ronda Thompson (1955-2007)         American novelist        In her novel Confessions of a Werewolf Supermodel (2007)

“Life is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So you’re stuck with this undefinable whipped mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there’s nothing else left to lớn eat. Sure, once in a while there’s a peanut butter cup, or an English Toffee. But they’re gone too fast. The taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly và teeth-shattering nuts. If you’re desperate enough to lớn eat those, all you’ve got left is a — is an empty box, filled with useless brown paper wrappers.”        The “Cigarette Smoking Man”        The X-Files character played by actor William B. Davis        In a 1996 episode of the The X-Files TV series

“Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.”          Tom Lehrer        American songwriter và satirist         Part of his spoken introduction to lớn the song “We Will All Go Together When We Go,” on the album An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer

“Life is like a trò chơi of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism. The way you play it is không lấy phí will.”        Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)        Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964        This popular quote appears lớn have first been attributed khổng lồ Nehru by Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review, in a 1967 issue of that venerable periodical.

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