The New Art Gallery - Views of the new gallery and details of its main focus, the Garman/Ryan Collection.
Walsall Jazz Orchestra - Big band focusing on contemporary jazz. Includes sound clips and event listings.
WS1 - Information about the new nightclub coming to Walsall.
Walsall Community Arts Team - Aims to encourage and enable local people with varied ability to access the arts. Details of Philosophy, partner organisations and projects as well as profiles of people who use the arts within their communities.
Heat Night Club - Features club history, photos and contacts.
Walsall Illuminations - Annual six week light show at Walsall's arboretum. Includes ticket information.
"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) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
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-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Arts and Entertainment The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Arts and Entertainment
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "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) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Arts and Entertainment "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Arts and Entertainment
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Arts and Entertainment I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Arts and Entertainment
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Arts and Entertainment The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Arts and Entertainment
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 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Arts and Entertainment To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Arts and Entertainment
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Arts and Entertainment There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Arts and Entertainment
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Arts and Entertainment 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Arts and Entertainment
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Arts and Entertainment Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Arts and Entertainment
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Arts and Entertainment He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Arts and Entertainment "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Arts and Entertainment
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Arts and Entertainment I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Arts and Entertainment
