Karadjov's Family - Nadka Karadjova & Svetla Ivanova - The crystal like voice, eminent skill and artistry of Nadka Karadjova spread all around the world the beauty of the Bulgarian folk song from region of Srednogorie.
Q-Check - Reviews and downloads with gypsy Q-Check (Cocek, Chocek, Kyuchek, Kyutchek) brass music.
Kaval - Site about the folk instrument from the Balkans.
Balkanarama - Balkan and Rom folk dance band in Seattle.
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Folk Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Folk
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Folk ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Folk
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Folk A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Folk
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Folk Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Folk
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Folk I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Folk
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Folk 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 "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Folk
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard 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 "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Folk "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Folk
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Folk The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Folk
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Folk Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Folk
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Folk "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Folk
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Folk If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Folk
