Sky Higgins, stone sculptor - Sculptor whose subject matter ranges from the figurative - people, animals, plant life, insects, shells, bones, trees -to the abstract. Photos of some works.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
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-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Arts and Entertainment With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Arts and Entertainment
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Arts and Entertainment The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb 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 One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Arts and Entertainment I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
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-- Mortimer J. Adler Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Arts and Entertainment May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Arts and Entertainment
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Arts and Entertainment The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Arts and Entertainment
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Arts and Entertainment "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Arts and Entertainment
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Arts and Entertainment There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Arts and Entertainment 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 If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Arts and Entertainment
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin 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 For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Arts and Entertainment I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Arts and Entertainment
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Arts and Entertainment
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Arts and Entertainment A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Arts and Entertainment
