Tommy Tinker - Entertainer providing childrens magic to family shows, circus workshops, sfx workshops and bouncy castles
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous 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 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 Arts and Entertainment The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous 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 Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) 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 "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Arts and Entertainment If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "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 I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Arts and Entertainment
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Arts and Entertainment The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Arts and Entertainment
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Arts and Entertainment "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 Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus 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 Arts and Entertainment
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Arts and Entertainment "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Arts and Entertainment
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Arts and Entertainment The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Arts and Entertainment
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Arts and Entertainment
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Arts and Entertainment I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Arts and Entertainment
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 "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Arts and Entertainment The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Arts and Entertainment
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Arts and Entertainment Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Arts and Entertainment
