Skylark Studios - An art gallery specialising in printmaking, etching, linoprinting and block printing. Art classes are offered as well as regular exhibitions of national artist's work.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Arts and Entertainment Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Arts and Entertainment
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo 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 I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Arts and Entertainment A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene 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
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Arts and Entertainment He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Arts and Entertainment "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Arts and Entertainment
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman 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 The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Arts and Entertainment Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Arts and Entertainment
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Arts and Entertainment I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Arts and Entertainment
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Arts and Entertainment Marriage is a rest period between romances. Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Arts and Entertainment
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 Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Arts and Entertainment He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Arts and Entertainment
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Arts and Entertainment The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Arts and Entertainment There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle 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 I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
