With Different Eyes - An exhibition with drawings and photos by children for a kindergarten in Kosovo. English and German content.
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Arts and Entertainment Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Arts and Entertainment
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Arts and Entertainment "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Arts and Entertainment
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Arts and Entertainment
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Arts and Entertainment "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Arts and Entertainment
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. 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" Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Arts and Entertainment I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Arts and Entertainment
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Arts and Entertainment "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Arts and Entertainment
"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) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Arts and Entertainment Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I 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 Arts and Entertainment
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Arts and Entertainment I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, 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 I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Arts and Entertainment
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "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) Arts and Entertainment I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Arts and Entertainment
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Arts and Entertainment
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Arts and Entertainment The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz 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 Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Arts and Entertainment
