Visual Art in Ipswich - Includes a tour of art in and around Ipswich, and information on galleries and art organisations.
Lunajunkie.com - Official site for The Attic night-club. Specializing in music from the 1960's to the 1980's, including Northern, Atlantic and Stax Soul, Motown, Funk, Soundtracks & Film Scores.
Ipswich Art Society - Information about the Society and its programme of exhibitions and other events.
Ipswich Transport Museum - The Ipswich Transport Museum has the largest collection of transport items in Britain devoted to just one town. Everything was either made or used in and around Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk.
Ipswich Film Society - Aims to promote film as a medium for entertainment, education and culture. A selection of world cinema is shown which is supported by programme notes and talks.
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-- Jacob Braude Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
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-- Robert Orben Arts and Entertainment If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan 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 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Arts and Entertainment Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Arts and Entertainment
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Arts and Entertainment Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Arts and Entertainment
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Arts and Entertainment
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Arts and Entertainment
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Arts and Entertainment
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Arts and Entertainment I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
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A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Arts and Entertainment To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Arts and Entertainment
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Arts and Entertainment Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Arts and Entertainment
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Arts and Entertainment Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Arts and Entertainment
