Scottish Screen - Promoting Scotland as a production centre for world movie making. Now answerable to the Scottish Executive.
British Film Commission - Founded in 1991 to promote the UK as a production centre for world movie making.
The British Film Institute - Set up in 1933 under a Royal Charter to encourage UK film and television production and conservation.
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Film In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Film
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Film "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Film
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Film Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Film
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Film The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Film
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Film Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Film
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Film "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) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Film
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Film I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Film
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Film Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Film
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Film Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Film
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Film [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Film
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Film The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Film
