Tir Saile - North Mayo Sculpture Trail - Guide to Ireland's largest public arts project, including profiles of the 14 artists involved, map and directions to sculpture trail exhibits.
Bard Productions - Course details plus booking form for the 2003 Bard Summer School on Clare Island, which will explore myth and story telling.
Mayo County Library Service - Official site of the Mayo Library Service includes searchable catalogue, details of branches and mobile services, guide to local studies materials, children's section, events listings and interactive 'readers area'.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Arts and Entertainment Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Arts and Entertainment
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Arts and Entertainment It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Arts and Entertainment "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Arts and Entertainment
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Arts and Entertainment If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Arts and Entertainment
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Arts and Entertainment
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Arts and Entertainment All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Arts and Entertainment "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Arts and Entertainment
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Arts and Entertainment
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Arts and Entertainment "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "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) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Arts and Entertainment There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Arts and Entertainment
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Arts and Entertainment Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
