Siberian Intercultural Bridges - American non-profit organization helping the Siberian region through cultural exchange, providing English teachers and materials. Includes an overview of their operations, program details and history.
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Chita Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Chita
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Chita "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Chita
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chita Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Chita
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Chita Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Chita
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Chita The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Chita
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Chita If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chita
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chita "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Chita
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Chita "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Chita
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Chita The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Chita
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Chita I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Chita
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Chita A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Chita
