North Somerset Museum Service - Manages the North Somerset Museum. History of the museum, galleries and displays, collections.
The Playhouse Theatre - Events, information, booking details and the history of this North Somerset Council run venue.
Dragon Kiss - A leisure venue offering bar, restaurant with Oriental cuisine, DJs and dancing, stage and screen, karaoke. What's on.
Scallys - Pub and music venue. Details of forthcoming events and band details.
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Arts and Entertainment
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Arts and Entertainment Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Arts and Entertainment
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Arts and Entertainment Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "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 Arts and Entertainment
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment The covers of this book are too far apart.
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-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Arts and Entertainment
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) 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 I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Arts and Entertainment Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Arts and Entertainment
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Arts and Entertainment It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Arts and Entertainment
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Arts and Entertainment My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment
"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) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Arts and Entertainment
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Arts and Entertainment All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Arts and Entertainment
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Arts and Entertainment My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Arts and Entertainment
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Arts and Entertainment Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment
