Hartlepool Stage Society - Amateur dramatics group including a junior section that specialise in musicals and dance. Contact details and information about past productions.
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Arts and Entertainment Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Arts and Entertainment
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Arts and Entertainment The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Arts and Entertainment "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli 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 Arts and Entertainment
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Arts and Entertainment "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Arts and Entertainment
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Arts and Entertainment These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Arts and Entertainment
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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) Arts and Entertainment ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 My other wife is beautiful. It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Arts and Entertainment
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Arts and Entertainment Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Arts and Entertainment Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Arts and Entertainment "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Arts and Entertainment
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long 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 science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Arts and Entertainment
