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What's on in Iceland - Listings of cultural events such as concerts and exhibitions. Includes event calendar, travel tips, and restaurant guide.
Reykjavik Arts Festival - Official site of the event, which offers general information, photographs, news, and a rooster.
Leifur Eiriksson Millennium Commission - Information on Icelandic cultural events in the USA and Canada celebrating the 1000th year anniversary of Leif Eiriksson's discovery of North America and historic background.
Listasafn Íslands - National gallery of Iceland. Includes a picture of the month, admission prices, opening times, and contact information.
Nordic House - Nordic cultural center. Includes purpose, history, program, information about its facilities, and photographs.
Association of Icelandic Film Producers - Organization information and contacts.
The Icelandic Filmcompany - Information and reveiws on the icelandic movies The Icelandic Dream and A Man Like Me by director Robert Douglas.
101 Reykjavik - Review of the movie.
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose, 1931 Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Arts and Entertainment "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) 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 "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Arts and Entertainment Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau Arts and Entertainment Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Arts and Entertainment "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster Arts and Entertainment There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Arts and Entertainment "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Arts and Entertainment The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Arts and Entertainment To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz Arts and Entertainment You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. -- Stanislaw J. Lem Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles Arts and Entertainment I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Arts and Entertainment I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming 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. -- Anonymous Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes Arts and Entertainment "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George Arts and Entertainment A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne Arts and Entertainment A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Arts and Entertainment I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth Arts and Entertainment Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Arts and Entertainment The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Arts and Entertainment
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