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Derby Perspectives - Personal view of the growth of this city praising the 1920s-30s architect Charles Aslin.
Artizani Street Theatre - Performances include, static shows, stiltwalkers and surreal animations. Details of future events and photos. [Based in Glossop]
State of the Art - International tattoo and body piercing conference and convention. Listing of artists, vendors, and exhibitors attending. Application forms, contact information, seminar and training information. Details of 2001 convention.
Derby Playhouse - Details of events at the Derby Playhouse in the Eagle Centre.
Renishaw Hall - Stately home with information on their gardens, lake side walks, museums, and gallery cafe functions. [Located near Eckington]
Red Shed - 5 Piece Show Band. Contains members profiles, play list, photos and booking list.
Derbyshire Libraries - Includes information, opening times and contact details.
Well Dressing - Ancient ritual in Derbyshire's Peak District. Site contains photos and details on well dressing in 2001.
Derbyshire Churches - Photographs of parish churches by Andrew McCann.
Derby Diocesan Association of Church Bellringers - Details of bellringing in the districts of Chesterfield, Derby, Ilkeston and Peak.
First Movement - Experimental arts organisation developing projects which reflect the experiences, choices and abilities of learning disabled people.
The Beetroot Tree - Art and craft gallery in Draycott with information, photographs and contact details.
Feet First Appalachian Cloggers - Information about the dance team and their band, their performances and history, reviews, and booking information.
Phoenix Productions - Touring company based in Linton. Information on current and future shows.
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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin Arts and Entertainment Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) 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 Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward Arts and Entertainment Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz Arts and Entertainment Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle "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 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer Arts and Entertainment I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas in a review "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 Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A Arts and Entertainment The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Arts and Entertainment "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Arts and Entertainment What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Arts and Entertainment Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein 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 Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Arts and Entertainment "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "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 I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon Arts and Entertainment "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth Arts and Entertainment To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
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