Eastern Screen - Film commission for the East of England. Finding locations, facilities and crew in the UK's most successful region for film making.
Solent TV - TV listings and reviews, upcoming events on the island and an FAQ.
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Television As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Television
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Television If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Television
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Television Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Television
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Television I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Television
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "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) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Television In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Television
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "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) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Television Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Television
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) 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? Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Television Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Television
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "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 "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Television He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Television
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Television I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Television
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Television I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "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 Television
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Television "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) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Television
