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Scottish Libraries Across The Internet - Information on people, organisations, libraries, events and resources of Scottish interest.

Scottish Arts Council - A comprehensive source of information on the arts in Scotland: crafts, drama, dance, literature, music, visual arts. Arts funding including lottery money, committees, press releases, links, publications.

s1play - Comprehensive listings and reviews for Scottish live music, restaurants, pubs, clubs, theatre and cinema.

Art Scotland - Promoting Scottish art and artists. Galleries of art work: paintings, ceramics, etchings and sculptures.

Entertainers Agency Scotland - Wedding entertainment agency. From a romantic castle to a misty lochside location, traditional entertainment for your special day. Bagpipe players and ceilidh bands a speciality.

Keith Watson's Digital Painting Gallery - A collection of digital paintings and computer artwork, with views of Scotland.

ArtWork - Independent arts newspaper, based in Ellon, Aberdeenshire. Covers events throughout Scotland.

Scottish Art - About Scotland's art pages. Art galleries. Turner engravings of Scotland. Features on harmony and proportion in architecture and the inspiration of waterfalls of the Clyde.

About Scotland - Digital gallery of pictures of Scotland by artist J.H. Anderson.

International Cultural Desk - A central Scottish clearinghouse for enquiries about international opportunities in the arts and culture.

Scottish Town Crier - Available to promote your event, product or charity. Lists general information, history, picture gallery, contact details and links to related sites

Jimmy McNulty's Bonnie Scotland - A comic treatise on good old-fashioned Scottish swearing - not for the easily offended.

Entertainment Direct - Glasgow based company offering bands, trios, and quartets to play at functions. Lists details about functions, programmes, personal profile, enquiry page and contact addresses.

Poems and Pints - Performance poetry in Glasgow and Southwest Scotland. Venues, dates and performer biographies.

Hand Coloured Prints by Dorothy Bruce - Prints of Ayrshire and elsewhere in Scotland.

Mark Fisher's Scottish Theatre Links - Scottish theatre reviews, articles, addresses and links. Actors, directors, companies, what's on in Scotland.

Alba Adventure Company - Offers a costumed actor service and a character for murder mystery dinners, ghost tours and functions. Listing character costumes, function information and full contact details.

Paraig Macneil - Storyteller mostly in English/Scots/Gaelic or a mixture of all. Tales of the Fianna, clan legends, histories and genealogies.

The Look Modelling Agency - Modelling agency with a client list that includes some of the Countrys biggest companies. Listing portfolios of males, females, lookalikes, kids and teens.

Blaise Schumacher - Glasgow based designer whose commissions include Original Art Deco, Celtic and Victorian designs, Leaded panels, Painting, Fusing and Etching. Listing sketches, gallery and contact details.

Scottish Bagpiper - Offering professional pipers for all occasions. Providing information about the pipers, functions and contact details.

Judy Pickering Design - Arts and crafts designer. Listing profile, handmade cards, wedding stationary, hand knitted scarfs and online links.

Wine Glass Jewellery Company - Manufacture of hand beaded decorations for special occasions. Includes product details and photographs along with wedding and corporate information.

Scotland the Movie Location Guide - A guide to the locations appearing in movies and television filmed in Scotland.

Wreckered - Satirical e-zine with sports, television and lifestyle sections.

MBDiscos - Mobile disco and Karaoke. Covering Coatbridge, Glasgow, Lanarkshire and Stirling. Listing photo gallery, equipment, music, prices, events and booking information.

The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour - Group of artists, exhibiting and actively promoting the contemporary art of painting in waterbased media.

The Royal Scottish Academy - Located in the Mound, Edinburgh and is the home of contemporary Scottish art. Lists member and history details, collection and exhibitions information.

Scotland: Music and Dance - Contains links to many related sites.

Hi-Arts - Arts journal with news, reviews, interviews and stories about the arts and culture across the North of Scotland and the Isles.

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Arts and Entertainment The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol Arts and Entertainment I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa Arts and Entertainment Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates Arts and Entertainment Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings Arts and Entertainment He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. -- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Arts and Entertainment To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Arts and Entertainment You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin Arts and Entertainment Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi Arts and Entertainment The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Arts and Entertainment I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "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 A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard Arts and Entertainment A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford Arts and Entertainment If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Arts and Entertainment Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "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) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder Arts and Entertainment "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch Arts and Entertainment You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Arts and Entertainment More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Arts and Entertainment I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Arts and Entertainment Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Arts and Entertainment My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. -- Anonymous "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) 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 NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Arts and Entertainment Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Arts and Entertainment
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