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Mike Williams Photography - Includes contact details, and a gallery of pictures.

Food and Drink Festival - An energising, exuberant weekend of great food, locations, traditional music and hospitality at its best.

Skye Media - Offers a range of media resources including photography, radio and television broadcasting, film and TV location support, consultancy and research.

Skye Scene Highland Ceilidh - A musical presentation of Skye's gaelic history and traditions. Includes photographs plus contact and ordering details.

An Tuireann Arts Centre & Cafè - Centre for contemporary visual arts and crafts, with licensed cafe bar serving meals and snacks.

The Little Gallery - Jean Thomas etchings, prints and watercolours depicting the local flora and fauna. Provides examples, gallery and order information.

Non-Stop - An outfit of DJs who perform club nights in the locality. Provides gig dates, pictures and associated links.

Skyescenes - A range of artwork, captured by local artists, drawing on the breathtaking beauty and timeless appeal of the Isle of Skye and its surroundings.

If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW Arts and Entertainment Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Arts and Entertainment "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) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp Arts and Entertainment Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Arts and Entertainment Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Arts and Entertainment If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur Arts and Entertainment Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Arts and Entertainment Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Arts and Entertainment The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs Arts and Entertainment I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels. -- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Arts and Entertainment My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Arts and Entertainment Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW Arts and Entertainment Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment "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) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Arts and Entertainment It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Arts and Entertainment The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn 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 "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus Arts and Entertainment "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th Arts and Entertainment
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