Milimetros TV - Animation studio specializing in pre-production and animation services on long features, TV specials, pilots and series.
Madrid Players - English speaking amateur theatre group producing plays and drama workshops.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza - 800 Master Pieces of painting, XIII-XX centuries. The Museum is located in Madrid, at the Villahermosa Palace.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Arts and Entertainment
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Arts and Entertainment
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Arts and Entertainment Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Arts and Entertainment
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Arts and Entertainment "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Arts and Entertainment
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Arts and Entertainment "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Arts and Entertainment
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Arts and Entertainment He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Arts and Entertainment
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Arts and Entertainment Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Arts and Entertainment
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Arts and Entertainment The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Arts and Entertainment
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Arts and Entertainment Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Arts and Entertainment
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Arts and Entertainment If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Arts and Entertainment
