Animation Cels Collecting Guide - Reprints of articles from the popular UK magazine 'Collectable' concerning the purchase and care of animation art cels.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr 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 Animation Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Animation
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Animation It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Animation
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Animation Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Animation
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Animation Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Animation
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Animation Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Animation
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho 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 Animation blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Animation
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) 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 Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Animation Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Animation
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) 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 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 Animation The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Animation
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Animation I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Animation
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Animation There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Animation
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Animation blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Animation
