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Magic Martin - Magical entertainment for children and adults. Contains information on providing parties, or outdoor events with conjuring, ventriloquism, a puppet theatre, corporate magic and contact details.
One Vision - A local Queen and classic rock tribute band. Contains band information, upcoming dates, pictures and contact information.
Banbury Cross Players - Amateur theatre group performing at The Mill theatre. Includes information on current productions, social programme, next seasons plans, membership and ticket policy.
Banbury Symphony Orchestra - Perform classical concerts throughout the year. Includes information on concerts, repertoire, membership and meetings.
Alan Davies Photography & Digital Imaging - Provides photography and website design for the arts, weddings, sport, travel and image restoration. Includes services offered, galleries, and profile of the photographer.
Urban Collective - R&B event specialists. Provides details of events, venues and DJ profiles.
Creative Arts Network - Support group for arts and crafts in North Oxfordshire. A list of artists across the region, the regions Arts Events Diary and details of CAN group meetings.
Grey Lady Down - Progressive rock band. Contains news, reviews, discography, band information and show dates.
The Mill Arts Centre - Provides a range of art facilities for North Oxfordshire. Includes programme of theatre, music, dance, children's events, classes and workshops, plus information on tickets, hiring and the Café Bar.
Banbury Choral Society - Performers of choral music. Site contains choir description and events.
Hook Norton Brass Band - Contact information, news, events, and history.
Anjali Dance Company - The members are all people who have learning disabilities: aims, contacts, tour details and links.
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen Arts and Entertainment He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson Arts and Entertainment "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i Arts and Entertainment Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau Arts and Entertainment Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce Arts and Entertainment "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. -- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau 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 Arts and Entertainment Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Arts and Entertainment Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie 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 Arts and Entertainment That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Arts and Entertainment When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Arts and Entertainment I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Arts and Entertainment Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong Arts and Entertainment "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Arts and Entertainment "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Arts and Entertainment Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier Arts and Entertainment When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier Arts and Entertainment "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Arts and Entertainment
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