Anima Dance - A community dance company promoting access to dance across Leicester and Leicestershire, providing training and performance opportunities for people wishing to dance.
Dance Network - Dance school for all ages based in Measham and Ashby de la Zouch. Information on modern, jazz, tap and ballet classes with timetable, prices and contact details.
Morris Dancers - A list of local teams with contact details. There is an archive of pictures of many of these teams.
Quorn Folk Dance Club - English country dancing site, contains club history, contact details, forthcoming events, meeting times and photographs.
Larry (Lazlo) Gilbert - Barn dance/ceilidh caller based in Countesthorpe. Site has information about the dances, the music and organising a ceilidh.
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Dance If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Dance
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Dance Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Dance
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Dance Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "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) Dance
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Dance "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Dance
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Dance Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Dance
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Dance A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Dance
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Dance "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Dance
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Dance "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Dance
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Dance Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Dance
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Dance Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru 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 Dance
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Dance You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Dance
