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Arts Council England - The national development agency for the arts in England, distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery.
English Tourism Council - Supports the business of tourism in England, funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Regional Arts Boards - Describes the work of RAB including a breakdown by regions. Includes an excellent "dispatches" section which includes snippets of information on Government policy on the arts.
Football Licensing Authority - Oversees safety and crowd management issues at football grounds in England and Wales. Provides information on safety certification and the regulatory framework.
Sport England - Formerly the English Sports Council, responsible for providing services and funding to sport in England. Information about the development and funding of English sport, with advice on how to apply for Lottery funding.
Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac Culture, Media and Sport Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain Culture, Media and Sport Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon 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 The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly Culture, Media and Sport The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Culture, Media and Sport This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous Culture, Media and Sport They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Culture, Media and Sport Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin Culture, Media and Sport The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw Culture, Media and Sport If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at Culture, Media and Sport To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash 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 Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the Culture, Media and Sport "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Culture, Media and Sport Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost Culture, Media and Sport Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Culture, Media and Sport Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Culture, Media and Sport A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde Culture, Media and Sport The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche Culture, Media and Sport There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne Culture, Media and Sport To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Culture, Media and Sport The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters Culture, Media and Sport Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton Culture, Media and Sport They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons Culture, Media and Sport I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw Culture, Media and Sport
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