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Glass Design UK - Durham studio operated by Maralyn O'Keefe, an artist and designer specialising in stained and kiln-formed glass.
Northlights - Stained glass commissions by Elisabeth Roberg. Details of courses, links to resources and photo gallery of previous work.
Stained Glass Centre - Produces new stained glass windows, doors and leaded lights and also restores and repairs old and damaged ones.
Bournemouth Stained Glass - Studio, international teaching centre and shop, with stained glass, etched glass and glass sculpture art gallery and a comprehensive directory of craft suppliers.
Carol Arnold Stained Glass - Using traditional methods, Carol Arnold of North Somerset, designs and makes stained glass windows, light catchers, screens, ornaments or mirrors. Gallery of work and contact information.
British Society of Master Glass Painters - An organisation dedicated to the art and craft of stained glass, promoting the conservation, restoration and history of stained glass and painted glass.
Glass Painting - Contains information on glass painting techniques and materials, reviews of popular products and links to glass paint and materials suppliers.
Bomford Collection of Ancient Glass - Bristol City Museum provides a searchable catalogue of its important collection of ancient and Roman glass vessels and other glass objects, and a bibliography.
National Glass Centre - A focal point for glass and glassmaking. Includes information on exhibits, activities, and workshops. Tyne and Wear.
The Stained Glass Museum - Houses a national collection of stained glass. The illustrated online catalogue can be browsed by designer, subject, date or place. Includes brief biographies of designers. Ely Cathedral.
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Glass Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Glass Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl 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. - Sir Winston Churchill "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Glass People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Glass "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates Glass "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Glass "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France "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) Glass Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- 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 Glass "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Glass Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins Glass "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) 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 Glass If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards Glass An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal Glass All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot Glass [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Glass We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi Glass In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless Glass "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer Glass I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne Glass "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Glass "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Glass "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Glass
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