Quotables: "Midnight in Paris"

I stated my love for this movie many times already. I’m actually in love with this movie, as much as I’m in love with Paris. It’s just a brilliant concept, with a loveable leading man played by Owen Wilson. And full of memorable quotes, that I am going to share with you today in this item.



Inez: You're in love with a fantasy.
Gil: I'm in love with you.

Inez: You always take the side of the help. That's why Daddy says you're a communist.

Ernest Hemingway: No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

Gil: They are your friends and I have to admit I'm not quite as taken with them as you are.

Gil: I would like you to read my novel and get your opinion.
Ernest Hemingway: I hate it.
Gil: You haven't even read it yet.
Ernest Hemingway: If it's bad, I'll hate it. If it's good, then I'll be envious and hate it even more. You don't want the opinion of another writer.

Ernest Hemingway: Picasso only thinks that women are to sleep with, or to paint.

Gil: You know how I think better in the shower, get all those positive ions flowing.

Gil: That's what the present is. It's a little unsatisfying because life is unsatisfying.

Gertrude Stein: The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Ernest Hemingway: I believe that love that is true and real, creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving or not loving well, which is the same thing. And then the man who is brave and true looks death squarely in the face, like some rhino-hunters I know or Belmonte, who is truly brave... It is because they make love with sufficient passion, to push death out of their minds... until it returns, as it does, to all men... and then you must make really good love again.

Helen: We saw a wonderfully funny American film last night.
Inez: Who was in it?
Helen: Oh, I don't know. I forget the name.
Gil: Wonderful but forgettable. It sounds like a film I've seen. I probably wrote it.

Top 5 Thursday: Celebrities Who Can Narrate My Life

Whenever I watch a movie I like it when it’s narrated. My favorite movie has a narrator. If my life would be a movie, who would narrate it? I have five great options.

5. Cate Blanchett
She has a very low voice for a woman, but she always sounds so deep.

4. Emma Stone
Probably the sexiest voice on this list. I love Emma’s raspy voice.

3. Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch can make anything sound sinister, so maybe even my life. And with that voice everything he says also sound intelligent for some reason.

2. Morgan Freeman
Like I said, he was the narrator of my favourite movie. He’s a fantastic narrator and I just love the sound of Morgan Freeman’s voice.

1. Seth MacFarlane
His voice is better known then his face. Seth MacFarlane has the most beautiful male voice I’ve ever heard. Sometimes when I’m reading, his voice is the one telling me the story in my head.

They Almost Made the Top 5: Patrick Stewart, James Earl Jones, Kathleen Turner

50 Books Challenge 2013 Update - July

What a month. I read four book. Four GREAT books! This was, I think, the best month so far.

# 25. A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire # 3)- 5/ 5
# 26. The Loop by Nicholas Evans - 5/ 5
# 27. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey - 3/ 5
# 28. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - 5/ 5

Average: 4,5

Favorite of the month: The Hound of the Baskervilles

I still have some books I want to read, with one thing in common. So that brought me to this theme.

And it's authors like J.K. Rowling, Cassandra Clare and Maeve Binchy. It promises to be a good month and I'm pretty excited about it!!

Weekly Photo Challeng 2013 - Theme # 30: Dinner

Here is this weeks theme.

I'm not the best chef, but I really like to cook. And Ik also love to try new things I tried chicken gado gado the other day and it really turned out well. It was delicious. And it looks beautiful on the plate, doesn't it.

50 Books Challenge 2013 - # 28: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Story: Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville families home warns the descendants of that ancient clan never to venture out in those dark hours when the power of evil is exalted. Now, the most recent Baskerville, Sir Charles, is dead and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Will the new heir meet the same fate?
Start: july 24th 2013
End: july 29th 2013
Comment: I have a thing for detective stories, I like the idea of trying to solve a mystery with the characters. Sherlock Holmes is the best of them all and probably even the most well known fictional detective. So you can also say I have a thing for Sherlock. I love the films and off course the BBC show, but it all started with the books and I wanted to reread "The Hound of the Baskervilles" this summer. As soon as I opened the book, I was captivated. I normally read books in my native tongue, but I just had to read this one in English. What a beautiful way Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has with words. Your English has to be pretty advanced. This story has always been my favorite and again it was a pleasure to read it. I love the whole atmosphere of this book, the case is interesting and compelling and it's full of suspense. It's a timeless mystery. My favorite thing about all Sherlock Holmes books, is how detailed it is. They are classic 'who done it' stories, but with much more depth in it. Fantastic read!
Rating: 5/ 5

Movie Trailer Sunday (98)

Here are this weeks trailers.

A Single Shot
Description: A single shot, aimed at a lone deer, that hits and kills a young woman. The hunter, John Moon (Sam Rockwell), watches her die before discovering a box of money near her body. In a desperate panic, he takes the cash, hiring a low-rent lawyer (William H. Macy) to fight his wife's (Kelly Reilly) divorce suit, and attempts to cover up the killing. But when he discovers that the money belonged to a group of hardened criminals, the hunter becomes the hunted in this tense cat-and-mouse struggle in the backwoods of West Virginia.
Director: Matthew F. Jones
Starring: Sam Rckwel, William H. Macy, Jason Isaacs, Jeffrey Wright, Kelly Reilly
Trailer: Trailer "A Single Shot"

Cold Comes the Night
Description: A struggling motel owner (Alice Eve) is taken hostage, along with her daughter (Ursula Parker),by a career criminal (Bryan Cranston) as he attempts to retrieve his cash package from a crooked cop (Logan Marshall-Green). Everyone gets in over their heads, and a series of double-crosses leaves a string of dead bodies in this pulse-pounding story about desperation and survival.
Director: Tze Chung
Starring: Alice Eve, Bryan Cranston, Ursula Parker, Logan Marshall-Parker
Trailer: Trailer "Cold Comes the Night"

47 Ronin
Description: A band of samurai set out to avenge the death and dishonor of their master at the hands of a ruthless shogun.
Director: Carl Rinsch
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ko Shibasaki, Tadanobu Asano, Rinko Kikuchi
Trailer: Trailer "47 Ronin"
Comment:

The Ultimate Life
Description: Jason Stevens survived the journey his grandfather Red Stevens sent him through for "the Ultimate Gift". Now...That gift which includes managing a Billion dollar foundation is being challenged by his own family. In a courtroom battle...his assets are seized...his love interest with Alexia gets complicated...Jason could lose it all...He is now on a quest to discover what it truly means to fulfill his destiny...And Live.
Director:
Starring: Peter Fonda, Logan Bartholemew, Bill Cobbs, Lee Meriwhether, Ali Hillis
Trailer: Michael Landon Jr.

How to Train Your Dragon 2
Description: Hiccup and Toothless five years later. While Astrid, Snoutlout and the rest of the gang are challenging each other to dragon races (the island's new favorite contact sport), the now inseparable pair journey through the skies, charting unmapped territories and exploring new worlds. When one of their adventures leads to the discovery of a secret ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace.
Director: Dean DeBlois
Starring: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Cate Blanchett, Craig Ferguson, Djimon Hounsou, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, Kit Harrington
Trailer: Trailer "How to Train Your Dragon 2"
Comment: Never seen te first though...

In My Mailbox (107)

Five officials and one private swap this week. The first card came from Vilnius, Lithuania. It's a beautiful clock. I Always like the simplicity of this object, I don't know what it is.

Sent: july 12th 2013
Received: july 21st 2013
Distance: 1,347 km (837 miles)
Travel Time: 9 days

From Taichung City, Taiwan came this very adorable postcard. I love the dog! Such a sweet card!

Sent: july 8th 2013
Received: july 21st 2013
Distance: 9,504 km (5,906 miles)
Travel Time: 13 days

This is a ver colorful and creative postcard. I think it's perfect for me as a teacher. It was send to me from Saskatoon, Canada.

Sent: july 12th 2013
Received: july 22nd 2013
Distance: 6,931 km (4,307 miles)
Travel Time: 1 days

I have two favorites this week. This is number one, from Aken, Germany. Elephants are such great animals, look at this baby elephant!

Sent: july 18th 2013
Received: july 22nd 2013
Distance: 72 km (45 miles)
Travel Time: 4 days

The other favorite came from Kiev, Ukraine. I've received some hedgehog postcards already, but this is the cutest one ever! Don't you just love this.

Sent: july 18th 2013
Received: july 26th 2013
Distance: 1,722 km (1,070 miles)
Travel Time: 8 days

And a card from my friend from Gdansk, Poland. A wonderful Humphrey Bogart postcard.

Thanks Gite, Yu-Ying, Marla, Dorothee, Vera and Patricia for you awesome postcards this week!