Movie Quote Monday

"I do not see plays because I can nap at home for free.  

And I don’t see movies ‘cause they’re trash, 

and they got nothing but naked people in them!  

And I don’t read books, ‘cause if they are any good, 

they’re gonna make them into a miniseries."

--Ouiser, Boudreaux, Steel Magnolias, 1989, Robert Harling (screenplay),  Herbert Ross (director).

Movie Quote Monday

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

--Virginia Woolf, The Hours, written by David Hare, Directed by Stephen Daldry 

and Produced by Robert Fox and Scott Rudin, 2002.  :

William Shakespeare

“After four hundred years of intensive research into the life and works of William Shakespeare, we know almost nothing about the personal life of the most famous writer in the history of the English language. Only about a hundred documents related to William Shakespeare and his immediate family have been found: baptismal records, property deeds, marriage bonds, tax certificates, and court records — nothing about him personally.”

 “Shakespeare’s works are all we know about him. We can study, along with the scholars, his plays, poems, songs and sonnets, and discover something of what life was like for him… However, because he did not keep a journal, we don’t know, and probably never will, if he was happy or sad, if he liked sunsets and long walks by the Thames, whether he liked music, what his favorite foods were, if he enjoyed company or preferred to be alone. Some of his plays are set in other countries, and we don’t even know if he ever left England.”


Source:  

LDS Church News, “Keep a journal,” 13 Sept. 2014 published online at:  http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865610722/Keep-a-journal.html

 

Quote

“It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. 

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, 

some disappointment, 

even some failure is normal. 

Teach our members that if they have a good,

 miserable day once in a while, 

or several in a row, 

to stand steady and face them. 

Things will straighten out. 

There is great purpose in our struggle in life”

  -- President Boyd K. Packer, (That All May Be Edified [1982], p. 94).

My Mission September 2014

The Joseph Smith Memorial Building:

 We have our monthly devotionals here in the chapel in the JSMB.

 The beauty of the ceiling sometimes makes it difficult to focus on what is being said!

 The organ is from Canada and has black and white keys rather than the usual white and black keys.

 More beauty of the room

The chandelier from the mezzanine floor.

Movie Quote Monday

"I've had enough, 

and enough is as good as a feast."

---Mattie, “True Grit” 1969,

written by Marguerite Roberts and directed by Henry Hathaway