Grimsey Island - Description of the island, day tours, and travel planning by Nonni Travel.
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Grimsey This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Grimsey
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 I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Grimsey Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Grimsey
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. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Grimsey "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Grimsey
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Grimsey Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Grimsey
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten 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 If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Grimsey Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Grimsey
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Grimsey "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Grimsey
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Grimsey "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) 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 We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Grimsey
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) 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 Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Grimsey In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Grimsey
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Grimsey When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Grimsey
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Grimsey "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Grimsey
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "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 The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Grimsey A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Grimsey
