Money - a commentary on the new economy - An art project about Money. Works by artists from Scandinavia, Russia and the Baltic states at The Culture Center of Stockholm, 16/6- 5/8 2001.
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Stockholm Early Music Festival - Annual international festival of mediaeval, renaissance, and baroque music. Site includes a program, artist profiles, and ticket information.
MRS 90,5 - Volunteer-driven radio station that serves the greater Stockholm area with R&B, soul, hip-hop, reggae and house. Also possible to listen via streaming Internet.
City Art Gallery - Located in the Old Town. Details about past and upcoming exhibitions as well as information for exhibitors.
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Arts and Entertainment There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "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) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Arts and Entertainment
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Arts and Entertainment By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Arts and Entertainment
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Arts and Entertainment
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell 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 "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Arts and Entertainment Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Arts and Entertainment
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Arts and Entertainment "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Arts and Entertainment
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Arts and Entertainment
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Arts and Entertainment
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Arts and Entertainment After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Arts and Entertainment
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Arts and Entertainment If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright 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 Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Arts and Entertainment It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Arts and Entertainment
