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Headington Quarry Morris Dancers - Ring side. Includes diary, gallery and contacts.
Tolkien in Oxford - Author J.R.R. Tolkien's life in this city and related subjects.
The Wiseman Gallery - Oxford's largest contemporary gallery.
The Oxford Playhouse - Theatre offers classic drama, comedy, children's theatre, and music. Tickets can be booked online.
Project Oxford East Mapping - Arts project reflecting the area of East Oxford. It is a developing framework of sites showing different aspects of local life and history, as viewed by the artists that live there.
Oxford Photographic Society - Club ethos, programme of events, officers, news and picture gallery.
Ultimate Picture Palace - Showing classic and contemporary cinema from all around the world. Includes what's on, online reservations, contact and location details.
Hathor - Middle Eastern dance performance and practice group. Background, bookings and events.
Middle Eastern Dance Events in Oxford - Listing of workshops, hafla, performance and parties with contact details.
Oxford Photo - Photographic library supplying images of Oxford. Contact details available.
Musical Youth Company of Oxford - Registered Charity to provide young people the chance to take part in drama productions.
Folly Bridge - Theatre company. Information on the shows, educational workshops and booking.
Pegasus Theatre - Presenting contemporary drama and dance as well as comedy. Information on what's on, the Oxford Youth Theatre and Oxford Youth Dance, courses and workshops and book tickets online.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History - Details of the collections, temporary and permanent exhibits, forthcoming conferences, half term activities, opening times.
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Arts and Entertainment A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Arts and Entertainment To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) 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 "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Arts and Entertainment The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy Arts and Entertainment When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg Arts and Entertainment We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -- Norman R. Augustine God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Arts and Entertainment When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V We have only one person to blame, and that's each other. -- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom Arts and Entertainment We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY 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 A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic Arts and Entertainment Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and Arts and Entertainment "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp Arts and Entertainment The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III 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 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) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "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) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon Arts and Entertainment Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. Andre Gide Arts and Entertainment Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower Arts and Entertainment Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle Arts and Entertainment Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple Arts and Entertainment "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Arts and Entertainment
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