Gallery Sparts - Gallery with a collection of sports art, with more than 600 works of 50 sports by 35 artists. Virtual gallery with online shopping facilities, news and links.
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Comichouse - Dutch animation and cartoon studio. Provides a profile, background information and contact details.
MachoFlatsAZ - Cosmic Comedy Comrads, with forum and information on the sort of jokes they want to make.
De Parade - Two-month mobile theatre event; a circus turned inside out, with the audience in the centre surrounded by artists. Program and other information.
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Arts and Entertainment All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Arts and Entertainment
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Arts and Entertainment "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) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Arts and Entertainment In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts and Entertainment
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Arts and Entertainment Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Arts and Entertainment Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Arts and Entertainment
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Arts and Entertainment Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) 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
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Arts and Entertainment "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Arts and Entertainment
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Arts and Entertainment
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 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Arts and Entertainment "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Arts and Entertainment
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Arts and Entertainment Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Arts and Entertainment
