Colour Museum - Information on the exhibitions in two main galleries - the World of Colour, and Colour and Textiles. Includes interactive online exhibits, contacts and schedule of events.
National Museum of Photography, Film and Television - Comprehensive site covering the permanent collections, current exhibitions, access and opening hours, events, educational programmes, and IMAX cinema schedule.
Bolling Hall - Information about the 500 years old house, facilities and opening times.
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Museums Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Museums
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Museums "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Museums
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Museums I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Museums
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Museums Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Museums
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Museums "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Museums
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) 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 "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Museums When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "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 You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Museums
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Museums "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Museums
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed 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. Museums I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Museums
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Museums You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Museums
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "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) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Museums "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Museums
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Museums I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Museums
