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Somerset County Libraries - Includes addresses and opening times of libraries across the county.
Monday Studio - Examples of contemporary art, design, research into dyslexia, poetry, spatial installation and links.
Somerset Partnerships Arts Education Agency - Agency promoting the use of art in education. Includes newsletters, art project planning pack, training and resources.
Magic Fingers - Describes Exmoor art gallery and craft shops at Dunster and Dulverton. Includes opening times, online gallery and contacts.
Somerset Art Week - Bi-ennial showcase of visual arts at over 200 venues across the county. Includes extensive photo gallery and contact information for participating artists.
Somerset Film and Video - Promotes moving image production in the county. Includes directory of contacts, showreels, details of courses and past projects.
Foursite Consortium Library Catalogue - The on-line combined catalogue of stock in Bath and North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset, and Somerset County public library services. Reserve on-line.
Carnival Photos - Somerset and Wessex carnival photos, also a carnival poem, and dates for next event and links to related sites.
North Somerset Show - Brief details and contacts for this annual agricultural show.
Somerset Morris - Introduces this women's Cotswold Morris dancing group based at Marksbury. Includes photos and diary of their events in the Bristol and Bath area.
Priston Jubilee Morris Men - History of the group, programme of events and details of the dances and music performed.
Willow Man - The UK's largest known willow figure has been created by Serena de la Hey along the M5 motorway, near Bridgwater, Somerset.
Fred Wedlock - Background information and list of recordings from local all-round entertainer.
Journal of a Writing Man - Somerset poet shares his journal and works. Includes gallery, archives, stories, poems, haiku and biography.
Artlife - Local council funded project to develop arts and cultural initiatives to benefit West Somerset. Includes details of projects, grants and partners.
The Carnival Chronicle - Information and details, both historic and current, on the Somerset and Wessex Carnivals.
West Country Lines - Details of line dancing classes and social dances in Clevedon, Nailsea and Portishead. Includes newsletter and picture gallery.
Tamarisk - Raqs Sharqi performance dance group. Performance dates, booking information and classes plus residential workshops.
Symbolic Sculpture by John Robinson - A biography of the Somerset-based artist, list and galleries and discussion of his work. Hosted by the University of Wales, Bangor, which has adopted one sculpture as its logo.
Somerset Carnivals - Over 160 images and 60 movies from Somerset Carnivals, including: Bridgwater, Glastonbury, North Petherton, Wells and Weston-Super-Mare. Links to many clubs, events and results.
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Arts and Entertainment There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup Arts and Entertainment A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "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) Arts and Entertainment It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. -- Brendan Hills If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh Arts and Entertainment "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Arts and Entertainment Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash Arts and Entertainment I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Arts and Entertainment "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Arts and Entertainment The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty Arts and Entertainment "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius Arts and Entertainment Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) 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 Arts and Entertainment "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Arts and Entertainment "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Arts and Entertainment Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon. If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb Arts and Entertainment Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove Arts and Entertainment
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