Rotterdams Conservatorium - Founded in 1930, offers bachelor's degrees in music with majors in classical and jazz performance, composition, music education, music theater and production, Turkish and Indian music. Parallel programs in dance.
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Education "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) 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 The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Education
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Education I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Education
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "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) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Education To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Education
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Education Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Education
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Education "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Education
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) 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 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 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Education "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Education
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Education Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Education A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Education
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Education Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Education
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Education He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Education
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Education
