Tirana Biennale 2003 - Art exhibition with six international curators working independently on the concept of U-Topos. Includes information on the concept, artists, curators, venues, sponsors and partners.
Bevis Fusha - Photographer and photojournalist. Includes image gallery, contact details and resume.
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Arts and Entertainment If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Arts and Entertainment
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Arts and Entertainment If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Arts and Entertainment
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Arts and Entertainment The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Arts and Entertainment
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Arts and Entertainment "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Arts and Entertainment
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Arts and Entertainment "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Arts and Entertainment
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Arts and Entertainment You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Arts and Entertainment
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Arts and Entertainment It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Arts and Entertainment
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Arts and Entertainment Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Arts and Entertainment
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Arts and Entertainment
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Arts and Entertainment The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Arts and Entertainment
