Agris Brainstorm - Includes photos from past concerts, band news, and related links.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Brainstorm Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Brainstorm
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaďs Nin Brainstorm "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Brainstorm
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Brainstorm "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Brainstorm
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 "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) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Brainstorm "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Brainstorm
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Brainstorm I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Brainstorm
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Brainstorm Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Brainstorm
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Brainstorm I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Brainstorm
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Brainstorm The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Brainstorm
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Sřren Kierkegaard I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Brainstorm "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire 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 Brainstorm
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Brainstorm I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Brainstorm
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Brainstorm Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Brainstorm
