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BBC News: Entertainment - News and features about music, film, arts, TV and radio, new media, reviews and showbiz.
Guardian Unlimited: Arts - The latest news, reviews and commentary on the art scene, including special reports, galleries and artists. Covers theatre, music, dance and the visual arts, plus links to their film and book sites.
Artsworld - A TV channel dedicated to arts, available on Sky digital. Site contains, reviews, competitions and discussion forums.
Independent: Enjoyment - Books, film, music, photography and theatre each have their own sections with news, reviews, interviews and features.
Arts.telegraph.co.uk - Offers news, comment and features about the British arts scene with sections on books, films, music, theatre, art and architecture. Requires free registration.
Yahoo! News: Entertainment - Headline links from several media sources covering news about television, film, music and artists.
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain News and Media Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller 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 "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde News and Media Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) News and Media When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976. -- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) News and Media "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy News and Media Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor News and Media "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 News and Media "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde News and Media Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. -- Maurice Maeterlink "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end] [text_start] "Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a News and Media Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board News and Media "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) News and Media The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason "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 The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton News and Media "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire News and Media Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom News and Media My other wife is beautiful. "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford News and Media Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons News and Media Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) News and Media For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) News and Media The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln News and Media "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous News and Media
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