Suspended Animation - Art by Dave Brunskill based on the Tees Transporter Bridge in north-east England.
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Artists and Galleries "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Artists and Galleries
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Artists and Galleries One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Artists and Galleries
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Artists and Galleries Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Artists and Galleries
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Artists and Galleries Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Artists and Galleries
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Artists and Galleries I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "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) Artists and Galleries
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold 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 Artists and Galleries Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Artists and Galleries
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Artists and Galleries I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Artists and Galleries
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Artists and Galleries "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Artists and Galleries
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Artists and Galleries "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Artists and Galleries
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Artists and Galleries Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Artists and Galleries
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Artists and Galleries Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Artists and Galleries
