Folknett Norway - The guide to Norwegian folk music. The website is a joint site for several Norwegian record companies that publish folk music.
Nyando Productions - A recording studio and artist development company in Oslo. Features information about artists, and studio gear.
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Music I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Music
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Music The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Music
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Music LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Music
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Music I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Music
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Music "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Music
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Music To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash 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 "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Music
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Music Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Music
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Music "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) 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. When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Music
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Music In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Music
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Music I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Music
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Music If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Music
