Rob Scholte - Life and work of one of the most important contemporary Dutch artists.
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Scholte, Rob 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 And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Scholte, Rob
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Scholte, Rob 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. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Scholte, Rob
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Scholte, Rob The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Scholte, Rob
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) 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 Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Scholte, Rob I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Scholte, Rob
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Scholte, Rob I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Scholte, Rob
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Scholte, Rob Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Scholte, Rob
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Scholte, Rob I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "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) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Scholte, Rob
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Scholte, Rob "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Scholte, Rob
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Scholte, Rob "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Scholte, Rob
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Scholte, Rob Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Scholte, Rob
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Scholte, Rob Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Scholte, Rob
