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The National Moravian-Silesian Theatre - Includes information on the buildings, the history and present situation, plus premieres, contact details and events programmes.

Mikra Metal - Stainless steel stockist. Includes the catalogue, company profile, and a purchase facility.

Ostrava - Official web site managed by City Information Centre.

Ostrava Airport - History, technical data, contacts, timetable, transport, services, news and photogallery.

Regional Development Agency in Ostrava - Promoting the economic and social development of the Moravian-Silesian region.

Hotel Imperial - Includes information about accommodation, hotel dining, conference and recreational facilities, prices.

A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Ostrava To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker Ostrava "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein Ostrava Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Ostrava The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and Ostrava I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi Ostrava To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning 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 Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel Ostrava "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh Ostrava Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Ostrava I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde Ostrava I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere Ostrava In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst Ostrava If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli Ostrava "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Ostrava A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Ostrava If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler "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) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch Ostrava Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow Ostrava Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte Ostrava He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead Ostrava A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje Ostrava Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Ostrava "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh Ostrava
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