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Cor Ardesch - Organist of the 'Grote- of Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk' (Church of Our Lady). Curriculum vitae, sound file from organ recordings and ordering information for CDs.

In Vorm - Independent consultancy for contemporary visual art. Provides tailor-made work to companies, museums and private persons. Active in the Benelux, Germany and France.

Stadscollectie - Art from Dordrecht, the Netherlands. A presentation of art and artists.

Microfestival Dordrecht - 18th International Puppettheatre Festival in Dordrecht. Program and information about the masterclasses.

Jan Eijkelboom - Dutch poet, living and working in Dordrecht. Poetry International Festival: text and picture.

Black Rose, Foundation - The goal of the foundation is to improve the rock climate in hometown Dordrecht, by organizing a yearly festival and other concerts.

Belcanto festival - Operas, concerts, seminars, pasta parties and a choir competition. Ten days on a row in the historical inner city of Dordrecht.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Arts and Entertainment Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Arts and Entertainment The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Arts and Entertainment "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Arts and Entertainment "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Arts and Entertainment "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Arts and Entertainment "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Arts and Entertainment The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone Spinster: A bachelor's wife. America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Arts and Entertainment There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger Arts and Entertainment When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Arts and Entertainment Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Arts and Entertainment Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment 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 "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Arts and Entertainment 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 Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene Arts and Entertainment Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts and Entertainment One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb Arts and Entertainment 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 If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim Arts and Entertainment
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