The Arts Council of England - Aiming to develop and improve understanding of the arts and to increase their accessibility to the public.
The Scottish Arts Council - Providing advice, information and help to artists and arts organisations in Scotland. Responsible to the Scottish Executive.
Arts Council of Wales - Providing advice, information and help to artists and arts organisations in Wales. Responsible to the National Assembly of Wales.
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Arts Councils Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Arts Councils
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Arts Councils 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 An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Arts Councils
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Arts Councils "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Arts Councils
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts Councils Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Arts Councils
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Arts Councils It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Arts Councils
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "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) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Arts Councils Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Arts Councils
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Arts Councils Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Arts Councils
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Arts Councils Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Arts Councils
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Arts Councils I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Arts Councils
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Arts Councils We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Arts Councils
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Arts Councils blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Arts Councils
