Oldbury Rep - Community theatre, with details of previous and upcoming productions.
Regulars, The - Guitar pop band. Official site includes gig dates, news, bio, and sound files.
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Arts and Entertainment "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
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I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Arts and Entertainment
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
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-- Albert Einstein I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Arts and Entertainment
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
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prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Arts and Entertainment Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
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"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz 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 "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Arts and Entertainment
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Arts and Entertainment To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "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
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Arts and Entertainment Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Arts and Entertainment Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Arts and Entertainment
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 "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain 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 Unha It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Arts and Entertainment The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Arts and Entertainment
