City of Women - City of Women is an International Festival of Contemporary Arts, focusing on art and culture by women as expressed in the performing arts, the visual arts, literature, film and video.
Festival Lent - The biggest summer event in Slovenia. Seventeen days of more than 400 different cultural performances taking place including opera, ballet, classical music, jazz and theater.
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Events Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Events
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Events "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Events
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Events It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Events
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Events "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Events
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song 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 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Events "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Events
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Events A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Events
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Events "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Events
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Events I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Events
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Events Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Events
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Events I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Events
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell 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 I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Events "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Events
