Garry Clements Glass Design - Handmade fused glass mosaics and glass inlaid limeston. Includes gallery and pictures of mosaic and inset range.
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Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Arts and Entertainment Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Arts and Entertainment
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Arts and Entertainment "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Arts and Entertainment
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Arts and Entertainment
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Arts and Entertainment In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Arts and Entertainment We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Arts and Entertainment
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Arts and Entertainment May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Arts and Entertainment
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Arts and Entertainment
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. 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 "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Arts and Entertainment
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "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 No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "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) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Arts and Entertainment
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Arts and Entertainment Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Arts and Entertainment
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "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) 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 Arts and Entertainment By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Arts and Entertainment
