Love As I Find

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

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''Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.''

Rest In Peace Lauren Bacall - one of my most favorite actresses.

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Possibly my favourite Cary Grant film!

''Look I probably should have told you this before, but you see...well..insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.''

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''It is possible the blondes prefer gentlemen''

#BlondBombshells

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''A simple 'I Love you' means more than money.'' Frank Sinatra

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''I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I'm make mistakes, I'm out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.''

Marilyn Monroe

Favourite Films - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Let's Make Love and Some Like it Hot

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''If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers''

Doris Day

Favourite Films - Calamity Jane, Lover Come Back and Pillow Talk

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''I think your whole life shows on your face and you should be proud of that.''

Lauren Bacall

Favourite Film - How to Marry a Millionaire

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A week of my favourite screen goddesses.

Favourite films - Gilda, You Were Never Lovelier & Affair in Trinidad

''All I wanted was just what everyone else wants, you know, to be loved.''

  Rita Hayworth

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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

Victor Hugo

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He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W.B Yeats

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A truly amazing photographer - Gordon Parks

“Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.”  

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''Now here I am so spellbound,darling. Not by the stars, but just by you.''

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The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is still one of my favourite books and the film is a good watch as well.

''It’s okay… We aren’t in the same class. Just don’t forget that some of us watch the sunset too. ''

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Sometimes the simple things in life are the best #plainwhitetee

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''So if you really love me Say yes, but if you don't dear, confess And please don't tell me Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps''

Doris Day reminds me of being young, being with my Gran and her playing her favourite tapes and records whilst pottering around the house. My favourite Doris Day film to this day is Calamity Jane - I think she reminded me (and my Gran) of myself.

(This song also happens to be in one of my favourite films - Strictly Ballroom.)

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“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.”  

-The Owl and the Pussycat

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For the love of Paris....

Brassai - French photographer.