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Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum - Virtual exhibits, information and opening times.

Wolverhampton Libraries and Information Services - Details of the main and branch libraries, the Mobile Library service, archives and local studies.

Magic Entertainments - Offers close up,and stand up magic, disco's for children, punch and Judy shows, balloon modelling, and clown shows. Contains contact details.

StickyLicky Organisation - Provide an advisory and informational service for live performers in the music industry. Includes company profile, services offered, and gig guide.

Foursight Theatre - A women's theatre company committed to creating 'total theatre' - a holistic style of performance rooted in physical theatre, combining word, movement and music in equal measure.

Sparklekids - Parties and sleep-overs for girls aged 5-11 years. Includes details of party packages available, with prices and testimonials.

Light House - Media centre, specialising in cinema, film and video. Includes details of facilities, training, exhibitions, and other events.

"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Arts and Entertainment "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) 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 A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson Arts and Entertainment Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Arts and Entertainment "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown Arts and Entertainment "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Arts and Entertainment "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Arts and Entertainment Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel Arts and Entertainment In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Arts and Entertainment No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell Arts and Entertainment "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short 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 Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan Arts and Entertainment Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Arts and Entertainment Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Arts and Entertainment To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Arts and Entertainment Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Arts and Entertainment The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per Arts and Entertainment An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage Arts and Entertainment If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon Arts and Entertainment
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