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BBC Stoke - Offers local news, sport, weather and entertainment.
Paul Pichard - Editorial, commercial, public relations, and portrait photographs in a documentary style.
The Transformationalists - Based on an art movement from the local area. Includes details of important people who were part of the movement and links to their work.
Odeon - Staffordshire's largest multi-screened cinema situated in Festival Park, Hanley, Stoke on Trent.
Stoke-on-Trent Libraries Information and Archives - Includes online catalogue, library services, archive services and online library magazine.
Paul Deakin: Photographer - Catalogue of cave and mine photographs from sites in the UK and Europe. A few pictures; telephone and e-mail contacts.
Creative Stoke - Annotated and categorised links to visual-arts and media-arts activity within a ten mile radius of Stoke. Also an events guide for artists and designers.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. -- Bobcat Goldthwait "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Arts and Entertainment Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa Arts and Entertainment To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Arts and Entertainment Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik Arts and Entertainment blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Arts and Entertainment This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow 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 I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Arts and Entertainment Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison 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 Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness Arts and Entertainment I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Arts and Entertainment This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas in a review If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. Arts and Entertainment "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment Love is stronger than justice. -- Sting The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. -- Barbara Howar If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi Arts and Entertainment Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Arts and Entertainment Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Arts and Entertainment My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Arts and Entertainment "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) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Arts and Entertainment Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard Arts and Entertainment I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews Arts and Entertainment "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove Arts and Entertainment
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