Community Arts Rhayader and District - CARAD is an arts facility with a design and print room, sound studio, dark room, and theatre. Includes information about projects and what's on.
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- Henry David Thoreau ( Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
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-- John Weitz, American Designer Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
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get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
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-- John Stuart Mill Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
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-- Leonardo da Vinci Arts and Entertainment
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
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-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Arts and Entertainment
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Arts and Entertainment "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
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"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 I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Arts and Entertainment Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke 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 It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Arts and Entertainment
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Arts and Entertainment "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Arts and Entertainment Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Arts and Entertainment
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) 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 The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Arts and Entertainment The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Arts and Entertainment
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife 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 was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Arts and Entertainment
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Arts and Entertainment With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Arts and Entertainment
