Open Air Cinema Kamari - Movie program, reservations, and details on the annual summer Jazz festival.
Mati Gallery - Meet Yorgos Kypris, the owner and artist, find out about exhibitions and commissions, or view various sculptures and paintings; located in Fira.
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Arts and Entertainment Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Arts and Entertainment
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 If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Arts and Entertainment "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Arts and Entertainment "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius 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 Arts and Entertainment
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a rest period between romances. I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Arts and Entertainment It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Arts and Entertainment
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Arts and Entertainment "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Arts and Entertainment
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 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Arts and Entertainment A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Arts and Entertainment
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Arts and Entertainment You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Arts and Entertainment
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Arts and Entertainment I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Arts and Entertainment
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is a rest period between romances. Arts and Entertainment
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster 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 I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Arts and Entertainment
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Arts and Entertainment Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Arts and Entertainment
