Filmarchief Smalfilmmuseum - Collects audiovisual material, documentation and material relating to amateurfilms. It conserves films, organises lectures and screenings.
Filmmuseum - As a national center for cinematography the museum aims to promote a lively Dutch film culture, by the collection, restoration and screening of film treasures. Also presents new films, both Dutch and foreign art films.
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "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 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Museums Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato 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 A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Museums
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Museums We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Museums
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Museums The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Museums
"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.) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Museums Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. 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 Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Museums
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Museums Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Museums
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Museums "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Museums
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Museums "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Museums
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Museums The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Museums
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Museums "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Museums
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Museums Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Museums
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) 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 Museums blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Museums
