Bottisham Players - Amateur dramatics group in Bottisham who produce a pantomime and two plays every year. Pictures of past productions and description of their current show.
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Theatre One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Theatre
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Theatre To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Theatre
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Theatre The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Theatre
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Theatre What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Theatre
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "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 He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Theatre UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Theatre
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Theatre You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills What's new? Most of my wife. "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Theatre
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Theatre Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Theatre
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Theatre Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Theatre
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Theatre "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Theatre
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Theatre Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Theatre
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "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) Theatre "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Theatre
