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The Veroneka Big Band - Information about this swing band and their gigs. Includes contact details, sample track and audience quotes.
Portishead Players - Amateur dramatists. Summaries of current and recent productions, cast members, social events and membership.
Portishead Town Band - Traditional brass band. Details of their history, pictures, events and personnel including the training band members.
Pulse Disco - Mobile DJ offering music and lighting for parties and corporate events. Includes information about equipment used and contact details.
Portishead Camera Club - Programme of events, competition and contacts.
Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Arts and Entertainment Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Arts and Entertainment If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Arts and Entertainment Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs Arts and Entertainment Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara Arts and Entertainment "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Arts and Entertainment We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Arts and Entertainment "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Arts and Entertainment I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante Arts and Entertainment The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Arts and Entertainment Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Arts and Entertainment Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Arts and Entertainment The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder Arts and Entertainment Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Arts and Entertainment None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Arts and Entertainment A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi Arts and Entertainment When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Arts and Entertainment A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard Arts and Entertainment To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Arts and Entertainment "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Arts and Entertainment
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