Derrick Pisani - Personal page of island native. Includes hobbies, resume and projects.
Mediterranea - An annual festival of culture on the island. It aims to present Mediterranean heritage, prehistoric culture, music, including opera and classical, folklore, natural heritage, art and crafts.
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Society and Culture No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Society and Culture "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Society and Culture
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Society and Culture Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Society and Culture
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates 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 Society and Culture "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t 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 Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Society and Culture Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Society and Culture
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Society and Culture A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous 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? People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Society and Culture Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Society and Culture
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Society and Culture Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Society and Culture
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Society and Culture Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Society and Culture
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Society and Culture Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Society and Culture
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Society and Culture "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Society and Culture
