The Lost Gallery - Features Scottish modern art, with an eclectic selection of paintings, sculpture and photography.
Tolquhon Gallery - Art gallery mounting monthly exhibitions of work by leading Scottish artists including paintings, sculpture and studio crafts.
Northsound 1 - Chart and contemporary hits for the locality. Schedule, entertainments guide, presenter and music information. Available on FM, DAB and live web stream.
The Gordon Gaitherin - Music, drama and dance group based in the North-East of Scotland. Facilitates tutoring of school-age children by professional artists.
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Arts and Entertainment Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Arts and Entertainment
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Arts and Entertainment When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Arts and Entertainment The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Arts and Entertainment
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Arts and Entertainment "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Arts and Entertainment
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Arts and Entertainment 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 Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "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 and Entertainment
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Arts and Entertainment Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Arts and Entertainment He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Arts and Entertainment
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Arts and Entertainment Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens 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 He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Arts and Entertainment Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Arts and Entertainment
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Arts and Entertainment Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
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