The Lviv Theatre Of Opera And Ballet - The oldest academic opera house in the Western Ukraine, the building, history of development, and present announcements.
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Theatre The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Theatre
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Theatre Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Theatre
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Theatre If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Theatre
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Theatre "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Theatre
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Theatre Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Theatre
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Theatre The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Theatre
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Theatre Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Theatre
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Theatre Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Theatre
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Theatre The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Theatre
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Theatre "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Theatre
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Theatre The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Theatre
