Telewest Arena - Concerts, exhibitions and conferences plus Super League Ice Hockey and Premier League Basketball. Programme information and seating plans.
Grange Arts Project - An arts for older people project offering creative writing, silk painting, rug making, painting and story telling. Information on activities, news, funders and galleries.
Preserve The Paramount - An appeal to save the Art Deco Paramount Theatre. Includes history and photographs.
Free Festival - Arts festival with a global perspective, celebrating and uniting community. Details of event, acts and getting involved.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Arts and Entertainment The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Arts and Entertainment
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) What's new? Most of my wife. Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Arts and Entertainment
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Arts and Entertainment All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Arts and Entertainment
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Arts and Entertainment Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Arts and Entertainment Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Arts and Entertainment
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Arts and Entertainment If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman 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 Arts and Entertainment
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Arts and Entertainment
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Arts and Entertainment If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Arts and Entertainment
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Arts and Entertainment
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Arts and Entertainment With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment
