East Kent Open Houses - Art exhibition in local homes and gardens. Includes location map and opening times. [Flash]
Kent Potter's Association - Includes details of members and their work, an events calendar, shop location, glaze database and membership information.
Visualize The Future - Programme that aims to support innovative work and to promote visual arts in East Kent. Includes programme information, virtual gallery, directory of artists, art and galleries trails, news and sponsors.
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Artists and Galleries It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Artists and Galleries
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Artists and Galleries Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Artists and Galleries
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Artists and Galleries The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Artists and Galleries
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Artists and Galleries Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Artists and Galleries
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Artists and Galleries Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Artists and Galleries
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Artists and Galleries "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Artists and Galleries
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Artists and Galleries Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Artists and Galleries
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Artists and Galleries The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Artists and Galleries
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Artists and Galleries That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Artists and Galleries
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Artists and Galleries Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Artists and Galleries
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "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) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Artists and Galleries There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Artists and Galleries
