Imax Theatre at-Bristol - Part of the harbourside leisure development. Film programme, location and prices.
The Cube - Independent cinema and arts centre. Details of current activities, promotions and contact information.
Watershed Media Centre - BFI regional cinema in harbourside arts centre. Listings and booking information.
Orpheus Cinema - Independent cinema in Henleaze: listings, ticket prices and contact details.
Showcase Cinemas - Fifteen screen multiplex located at Avonmeads Retail Park, next to Hollywood Bowl. Listings and booking information.
Arnolfini - Harbourside arts centre including a cinema showing alternative and arthouse films. Programme details and booking information.
Cineworld - Eight screen multiplex at Hengrove Leisure Park. Programme details and booking information.
Bristol University Fine Film Society - Offers a varied selection of films from all over the world. Includes membership information and a programme schedule.
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day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "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 You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Cinema 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 "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Cinema
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
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Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
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Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Cinema Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Cinema
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Cinema Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Cinema
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Cinema
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Cinema Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Cinema
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Cinema The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Cinema
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Cinema Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Cinema
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Cinema Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Cinema
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Cinema The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Cinema
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Cinema The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Cinema
