The Theatre Chipping Norton - Theatre presenting a programme of theatre, dance, comedy, lectures and films. It also has a gallery were local artists display their work. Includes programme of events, technical and booking information.
Manor House Art Gallery - Oils and watercolours from contemporary british painters. Includes photos, artist biographies, location information and contact details.
Chipping Norton Music Festival - Festival of classical and choral music, speech and drama with professional concerts held each year in March. Site includes information from previous years and schedule.
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-- Dave Barry We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
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- Martin Fraquhar Tupper I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
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-- Shirley Temple Black "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Arts and Entertainment
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Arts and Entertainment "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
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-- Helen Keller Arts and Entertainment
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 "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
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-- Libby Gelman-Waxner In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
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-- Theodore Sturgeon It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
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-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
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-- Billie Holliday I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
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-- Arthur Godfrey Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
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-- Mortimer J. Adler I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
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- Galileo Galilei The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Arts and Entertainment We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
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"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
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-- Robert Graves I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
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-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Arts and Entertainment There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
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-- Modern Maturity I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
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I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
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-- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Arts and Entertainment
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Arts and Entertainment He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner 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 Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
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-- Gore Vidal We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
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"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton 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
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-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Arts and Entertainment
