The Bradford Players - Amateur dramatics group based at Bradford-on-Tone. Includes details of pantomine and plays, photo gallery and forthcoming events.
Wellesley Cinema - Details of forthcoming features with trailers to download and actor biographies.
Wellington Arts Association - Profiles of the various arts, dance and drama groups which form the WAA. Includes details of performances, facilities, newsletter and diary dates.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Arts and Entertainment
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Arts and Entertainment Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "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 Arts and Entertainment
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Arts and Entertainment It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Arts and Entertainment "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Arts and Entertainment
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Arts and Entertainment Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Arts and Entertainment
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Arts and Entertainment 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 The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Arts and Entertainment Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Arts and Entertainment
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Arts and Entertainment He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Arts and Entertainment
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Arts and Entertainment We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Arts and Entertainment
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Arts and Entertainment "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Arts and Entertainment
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Arts and Entertainment I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Arts and Entertainment
