Sky Vault - Project to create a landmark over a major road in the East Midlands area. Includes further information about the structure and how it will look, along with press coverage.
Fased in the Arts - Organisation for freelance and self employed disabled people in the arts in this region. Database of artists with examples of work and membership details.
East Midlands Arts - Promoting the arts, supporting professional artists, and overseeing government and Lottery funding within the arts sector.
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment 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 For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Arts and Entertainment One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Arts and Entertainment
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer 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 It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Arts and Entertainment "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Arts and Entertainment
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Arts and Entertainment "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Arts and Entertainment
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Arts and Entertainment I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Arts and Entertainment
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Arts and Entertainment "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Arts and Entertainment
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Arts and Entertainment "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald 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 Arts and Entertainment
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Arts and Entertainment How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Arts and Entertainment
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Arts and Entertainment Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Arts and Entertainment
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Arts and Entertainment "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Arts and Entertainment
