Paraig Macneil - Storyteller mostly in English/Scots/Gaelic or a mixture of all. Tales of the Fianna, clan legends, histories and genealogies.
The Society for Storytelling - Society for Storytelling, giving contact and membership details, publication and storytelling tapes lists, and society events.
Festival at the Edge - Annual weekend festival of storytelling, music, poetry and related arts held each July in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Monthly storytelling club and programme of residential storytelling workshops
Lakeland Storytelling Festival - Hosted by Taffy Thomas MBE, the Festival has been successfully running since its inception as a Millennium celebration.
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Story Telling "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Story Telling
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "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 Story Telling "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Story Telling
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Story Telling All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Story Telling
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Story Telling In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Story Telling
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Story Telling Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "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) Story Telling
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Story Telling You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge 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 Story Telling
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Story Telling They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Story Telling
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Story Telling Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Story Telling
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell 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 Story Telling "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Story Telling
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Story Telling "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Story Telling
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 Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Story Telling An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Story Telling
