Sunday, December 30, 2012

A. A. Milne on Hidden Treasures

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh

A. A. Milne

Source: signals.com

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Christmas Song Wisdom: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
Let your heart be light.
Next year all our troubles
Will be out of sight.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
Make the Yule-tide gay.
From now on our troubles
Will be miles away.

Here we are as in olden days,
Happy golden days of yore.
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Will be near to us once more.

Someday soon we all will be together
If the Fates allow.
Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow.
So have yourself a merry little Christmas now.

Words and Music by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane
  with a nod to Judy Garland
from Meet Me In St. Louis, 1944
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
EMI Publishing
ASCAP

Source: reelclassics.com

Christmas Song Wisdom: Sleigh Ride

Sleigh Ride

Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ringting tingleing, too,
Come on, it's lovely weather for a Sleigh Ride together with you,
Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling "Yoo Hoo,"
Come on, it's lovely weather for a Sleigh Ride together with you.

Giddy-yap, giddy-yap,giddy-yap, let's go,
Let's look at the show,
We're riding in a wonderland of snow.
Giddy-yap, giddy-yap, giddy-yap, it's grand,
Just holding your hand,
We're gliding along with a song of a wintery fairyland,

Our cheeks are nice and rosy, and comfy cozy are we,
We're snuggled up together like two birds of a feather would be.
Let's take that road before us and sing a chorus or two,
Come on, it's lovely weather for a Sleigh Ride together with you.

INTERLUDE

There's a birthday party at the home of Farmer Gray,
It'll be the perfect ending of a perfect day,
We'll be singing the songs we love to sing without a single stop,
At the fireplace while we watch the chestnuts pop.
Pop! Pop! Pop!

There's a happy feeling nothing in the world can buy,
When they pass around the coffee and the pumpkin pie,
It'll nearly be like a picture print by Currier and Ives,
These wonderful things are the things we remember all thru our lives!

Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ringting tingleing, too,
Come on, it's lovely weather for a Sleigh Ride together with you,
Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling "Yoo Hoo,"
Come on, it's lovely weather for a Sleigh Ride together with you.

Leroy Anderson, Music
Mitchell Parish, Lyrics
First Performed in 1948
Lyrics Added in 1950
ASCAP, Alfred Music Publishing


Source: leroyanderson.com

Movie Wisdom: His Kind of Woman

Mark Cardigan (Vincent Price): [to Milner (Robert Mitchum) and Lenore] Well, what did you think of the picture?

Lenore Brent (Jane Russell): [Sarcasm] Oh, it was fine. It was just a little long - about an hour and a half.

After an advance screening of actor Mark Cardigan's new swashbuckling film.

His Kind of Woman, 1951
Written by Frank Fenton, Jack Leonard, Gerald Drayson Adams, Earl Felton
RKO Pictures

Source: imdb.com



Movie Wisdom: His Kind of Woman

Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum): Well, you see how it is: fools get away with the impossible.

Lenore Brent (Jane Russell): That's because they're the only ones who try it.


His Kind of Woman, 1951
Written by Frank Fenton, Jack Leonard, Gerald Drayson Adams, Earl Felton
RKO Pictures

Source: imdb.com

Sunday, December 16, 2012

John Lennon on Love

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

John Lennon

Source: goodreads.com

To honor everyone touched by the events on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut.