Glasgow's Hogmanay - Ticket and event details for the all night party in the City Centre on December 31st
Glasgow International Jazz Festival - General information about the Festival together with links to booking offices, fringe events, reviews, sponsors and contact addresses.
West End Festival - Glasgow's local summer party that thinks it's a fiesta.
Glasgow Music Festival - Annual festival of music, speech, drama and dance for amateur performers.
Celtic Connections Festival - Music festival organized every January. International performers, workshops, speakers and ceilidhs. Includes event information, funding, education and press sections.
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-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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-- Pablo Picasso Festivals It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Two souls with but a single thought,
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-- Fredrich Halm Festivals
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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-- Oliver Herford I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Festivals
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
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- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
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-- Abbie M. Dale If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Festivals
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Festivals Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Festivals
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Festivals Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Festivals
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Festivals Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Festivals
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Festivals An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
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Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Festivals My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Festivals
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
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-- D. H. Lawrence Festivals Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Festivals An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Festivals
