Darastean Art Collection - Personal art gallery of artist Niculita Darastean of Timisoara, Romania. Paintings, watercolors, graphic works, photography, orthodox icons, design works, illustration.
Negura Bunget - The Black Metal band of Transilvania.
Neurotica Band - Read, see, watch, hear, say - Neurotica from Timisoara.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
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-- Margaret Thatcher "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Arts and Entertainment The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Arts and Entertainment
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Arts and Entertainment
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster 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 "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Arts and Entertainment
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Arts and Entertainment Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Arts and Entertainment
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli 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 a A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Arts and Entertainment "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Arts and Entertainment Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Arts and Entertainment
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun 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 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Arts and Entertainment Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Arts and Entertainment
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Arts and Entertainment
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Arts and Entertainment Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Arts and Entertainment
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Arts and Entertainment It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Arts and Entertainment
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Arts and Entertainment
