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Athena: Swiss texts, by Pierre Perroud - Authors, works, portraits, map of Swiss languages, and links to Swiss literature.
The Alois Carigiet Home Page - Information about the famous graphic designer and children's books illustrator.
Pro Helvetia - Arts Council of Switzerland. Includes information about the foundation and its publications, application forms and information sheets.
Stephanus Virtual Art Gallery - Virtual exhibition of collages and paintings from a swiss artist named Berni Stephanus.
Association for the study of travellers in Switzerland - ACVS explores the manifold cultural aspects of past travel in Switzerland and encourage exchanges between academics and anyone interested in art, literature, history and art history. Press review, publications.
Picnic Terminal - Art and design gallery. Offers web design and architectural planning.
Emil Schulthess Archives - Swiss photographer of landscapes and people, 1913-1996. Brief biography and pictures, information on the archives.
Minuteman - Swiss artist collective consisting of a dancer, a visual artist and a scenographer, lighting specialist.
Dmitry Korman - Painter from Lausanne. Paints murals. List of works, works for sale.
Swiss Art Portal - Multi-lingual site with comprehensive information on Switzerland's arts scene.
Hotel Everland - Specifically created for Expo.02 by Swiss artist-duo Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann, this small green futuristic building accommodates two people and may be booked for one night during Expo.02.
VJ Big Loose - Video jockey from Lausanne. Includes news, pictures, contact information. In English and French.
The Illegal Eagle - Switzerland-based Israeli rock clown. General information and pictures.
The OURS Foundation - Provides overview of an arts and astronautical organization. Organizers of the Cosmic Dancer Sculpture and Ars Ad Astra space art projects on the Mir space station.
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Arts and Entertainment Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a Arts and Entertainment Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Arts and Entertainment "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy Arts and Entertainment Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Arts and Entertainment If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Arts and Entertainment "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth Arts and Entertainment Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Arts and Entertainment What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll 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 "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky Arts and Entertainment I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Arts and Entertainment We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Arts and Entertainment The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Arts and Entertainment Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Arts and Entertainment The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Arts and Entertainment "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France Arts and Entertainment The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Arts and Entertainment War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
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