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Milton Keynes Amateur Operatic Society - Local live theatre production company. With details about the society and it's past, present and future productions which have included concerts, musicals pantomimes and youth theatre.
Stantonbury Campus Theatre - Programme, booking, access information, and contact details including map of location in the north west of the city.
The Performing Arts Newsletter. - Theatre, music, poetry and the arts locally. Includes what's on, reviews, gallery and links.
Milky Moments - Adult content. Company offer naughty cabaret style lessons in love to ladies at ticket venues or as home parties. Features services offered and contact details.
Wolverton Events - All about local events. Includes information about the lantern festival, firework night, the square, event sponsors, photographs, Christmas lights and links.
Really Horrid Production Company - Company providing murder mystery entertainment for any occasion. Available for formal dinners, buffet functions, birthday parties and corporate events. About the company and what they do along with contact details.
Milton Keynes Gallery - Presenting six to eight free exhibitions of contemporary art each year. About the gallery, the exhibitions past, present and future along with sponsorship information.
Bob Haynes - Entertaining children as Uncle Bob's Magic Show. Also performs close-up and table magic. Information about the show and answers to many frequently asked questions along with means of contact.
Kathy Luff - Artist and Calligrapher. Showcasing artists paintings and pastels along with calligraphy samples, art-works and contact details.
Barrie Jones Photography - Photographer for weddings, portraits, commercial assignments and portfolios. Sample photos and contact details.
Scene and Hired - Theatrical stage and set hire company. Details and gallery of available products and contact details.
The Open Film Society - Provides a selection of films from September to May. Includes announcements, general information, membership details and a programme schedule.
Community Art - Covers different forms of art in the town ranging from The Wall in the coffee hall, Toadstools and Tinman at Beanhill, Dinosaur and Rabbit at Peartree Bridge, Griffin and Totem Pole at Eaglestone to a range of art no more, dismantled and gone forever.
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman Arts and Entertainment Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Arts and Entertainment Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert Arts and Entertainment A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette Arts and Entertainment "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca Arts and Entertainment "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Arts and Entertainment A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Arts and Entertainment People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Arts and Entertainment After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Arts and Entertainment "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa 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 Arts and Entertainment "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa Arts and Entertainment May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Arts and Entertainment He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Arts and Entertainment "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. -- Maurice Maeterlink Arts and Entertainment In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi Arts and Entertainment Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison Arts and Entertainment If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Arts and Entertainment Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Arts and Entertainment Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Arts and Entertainment By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy Arts and Entertainment A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy Arts and Entertainment
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