Rotterdam Film Fund - The RFF focuses on encouraging audiovisual activities in the Rotterdam region. Pictures of Rotterdam and information on the movies currently being produced and that have been produced in the past.
Netherlands Architecture Institute - Information on the collection, exhibits and online activities. These include a quiz, a virtual tour and 3-d photographs.
Anubis Ancient Art - Gallery features a collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts available to collectors and museums.
Ignaro.com - Official site of actor and entertainer Ingaro Petronilia. [Flash required]
Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF) - Biennial international and interdisciplinary festival in Rotterdam which showcases crossovers between art, technology and society.
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Arts and Entertainment "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) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Arts and Entertainment
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Arts and Entertainment Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
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-- Arnold Toynbee He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Arts and Entertainment
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Arts and Entertainment Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Arts and Entertainment
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Arts and Entertainment cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
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Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Arts and Entertainment "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Arts and Entertainment
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein 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 If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Arts and Entertainment The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Arts and Entertainment
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Arts and Entertainment Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Arts and Entertainment
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Arts and Entertainment
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Arts and Entertainment Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Arts and Entertainment
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Arts and Entertainment Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Arts and Entertainment
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
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