Sefton Council Arts Operations - Includes the Southport Arts Centre, Crosby Civic Hall, Atkinson Art Gallery and Botanic Gardens Museum. Also includes information about children's theatre workshops.
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Arts and Entertainment The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) 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 Arts and Entertainment
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Arts and Entertainment
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Arts and Entertainment
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) 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 I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Arts and Entertainment Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Arts and Entertainment
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "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) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment 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 Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Arts and Entertainment
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Arts and Entertainment
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Arts and Entertainment You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Arts and Entertainment
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Arts and Entertainment When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Arts and Entertainment
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Arts and Entertainment "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Arts and Entertainment
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins 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 "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Arts and Entertainment
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Arts and Entertainment Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Arts and Entertainment
