Bulgarian Photo Album - Provides various pictures from around the country, includes a guest-book.
Silvena Art Gallery - Presenting contemporaneous Bulgarian art, photographs, paintings, plastics, and gobelins. Includes exhibitions, authors, shop, and contact details.
Nick Chaldakov - Gallery includes landscapes, portraits, and abstract black and white photography.
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Photography Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Photography
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Photography Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Photography
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Photography Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford 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 Photography
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Photography Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Photography
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Photography "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "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) Photography
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Photography If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie 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 Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Photography
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Photography In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Photography
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Photography Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Photography
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "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) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Photography "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Photography
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Photography "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Photography
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Photography When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Photography
