Castillo del Mar - cultural activities - The old storage facility directly at the sea in the north of La Gomera offers a stage for cultural events of all kinds, e.g. concerts, theatre, expositions and films.
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Arts and Entertainment Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley 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 Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Arts and Entertainment "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Arts and Entertainment
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Arts and Entertainment "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Arts and Entertainment A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Arts and Entertainment
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Arts and Entertainment As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Arts and Entertainment
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland 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 What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Arts and Entertainment "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Arts and Entertainment
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Arts and Entertainment It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Arts and Entertainment They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Arts and Entertainment If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Arts and Entertainment
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Arts and Entertainment
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Arts and Entertainment 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 "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Arts and Entertainment
