Fire 107.6 FM - Dance and rhythmic contemporary hits for Bournemouth and Poole. Programme, music and presenter information, local news and sports, song request form and listen online.
Simon Davies Sound - A freelance sound engineer. Includes a list of capabilities and contact details.
Bournemouth Gilbert & Sullivan Society - Information on the society, including previous and upcoming productions, pictures of shows and links to related sites.
Westover Gallery Direct. Original Artworks - Selection of artwork in bronze, glass, aluminium and other sculptures. Ability to purchase art online, as well as galleries of artwork available.
2CR FM - Bournemouth-based radio station covering the Dorset area. Scheduling information available online, as well as competitions and details of local events.
Bournemouth Shakespeare Players - Performing open-air Shakespeare and indoor plays in in association with St Peter's Players. Programme, reviews, the World of Shakespeare.
Tangent Media - Local based sound engineering, recording, studio setup and tuition.
Bournemouth Hen Weekends - Resources for DIY hen weekends including information about events, clubs, hotels and travel.
Pier Photography - A photographer that specialises in contemporary natural portrait photography. Includes a portfolio and contact details.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Arts and Entertainment Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Arts and Entertainment
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
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-- Clare Boothe Luce A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
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-- Fred Astaire Arts and Entertainment "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
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May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
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tha It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
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"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Arts and Entertainment We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber To love another person is to help them love God.
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"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Man and wife make one fool. "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Arts and Entertainment His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Arts and Entertainment A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Arts and Entertainment
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Arts and Entertainment "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Arts and Entertainment
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Arts and Entertainment You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Arts and Entertainment
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
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-- Brendan Hills Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Arts and Entertainment
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Arts and Entertainment Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
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