HighLights of St.Petersburg - Russian folklore group of St. Petersburg, Russia. Information about their repertoire, performances, and tours.
Nikolaevsky Art Centre - Russian folk show at the Nikolaevsky Palace in St.-Petersburg. Information about the show.
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Music "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Music
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Music In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Music
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Music What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Music
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Music "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Music
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Music "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Music
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Music I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen 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 Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Music
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Music There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Music
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Music The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Music
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Music All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Music
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "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) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Music The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Music
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Music Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Music
