PANTOMIME THEATRE WORKSHOP - The mime-workshop is intended to introduce groups and individual amateurs of pantomime to the techniques and theory of professional mime-theatre. Most of our workshops take place in Poland.
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Theater "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Theater
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Theater Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Theater
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Theater Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Theater
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Theater My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Theater
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Theater Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Theater
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Theater A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Theater
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber 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. Theater There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Theater
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Theater May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Theater
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Theater Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. 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 Theater
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Theater "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Theater
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) 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 After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Theater "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Theater
