Torun Chamber Orchestra - Concert schedule, repertoire, history, and discography of the TCO.
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Classical "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Classical
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Classical 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 To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Classical
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "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 Classical The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle 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 If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Classical
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Classical Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Classical
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Classical "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Classical
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Classical The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Classical
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Classical "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Classical
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Classical Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Classical
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Classical "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Classical
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Classical We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Classical
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Classical 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. The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Classical
