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Newbury Theatre - Details of amateur and professional theatrical productions in and around Newbury.
Newbury Spooks - Ghosts and hauntings from Newbury and the surrounding area.
Newbury Camera Club - Programme of meetings, location maps, pictures by members and links to other photographic sites.
Corn Exchange Newbury - Information on events, tickets, news and reviews.
1st Choice Photography - Freelance photographer covering all types of photography in and around Hampshire/Berkshire. Website with over 18 galleries.
Newbury Spring Festival - Details of the annual arts festival with booking information.
Time Spanner Projects - An unincorporated association of musicians and writers, some of whom have disabilities. The group has three performance groups, a percussion group, a Soundbeam and sampling group and a writers network.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown Arts and Entertainment Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence Arts and Entertainment Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Arts and Entertainment Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland Arts and Entertainment The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Arts and Entertainment The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) 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 person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Arts and Entertainment "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Arts and Entertainment 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 "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Arts and Entertainment "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman Arts and Entertainment Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. Andre Gide Arts and Entertainment In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton 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 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 Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph Arts and Entertainment The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Arts and Entertainment Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. -- J. Heller In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler Arts and Entertainment "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, Arts and Entertainment The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Arts and Entertainment "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 I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all Arts and Entertainment Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "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) Arts and Entertainment blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan Arts and Entertainment
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