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The Lighthouse - Formerly the Glasgow Herald's offices in Mitchell Lane, Charles Rennie Mackintosh's first public project is now home to an exhibition about his works.
Supporting the City - the Impact of Engineering on Buildings - a conference at the University of Strathclyde
Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 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 "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins 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 A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design "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) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Glasgow 1999, UK City of Architecture and Design
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