Manchester University Film Society - The society shows films to professional cinema standard in the Union's main hall. Includes the film schedule, film reviews by other members, committee and volunteering information.
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Cinema Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Cinema
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Cinema Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Cinema
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Cinema Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Cinema
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Cinema He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Cinema
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Cinema Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Cinema
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Cinema "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Cinema
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Cinema Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cinema
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Cinema "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Cinema
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Cinema Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Cinema
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Cinema "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Cinema
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Cinema Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Cinema
