Apennine (the band) - Official web site of the experimental groove-based band. Wakefield.
Sing Live Ltd - Information and news for the independent singing organisation.
Yorkshire Philharmonic Choir - Choir, established in 1953 and performing at Wakefield Cathederal. Offers a history of the society, ticket information, concert schedule and membership details.
Jim Santana - Wakefield based Elvis tribute artist. Information on performances, with MP3s and merchandise.
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) 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 "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Music If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Music
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) 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 Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "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) Music Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown 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 Music
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Music A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Music
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based 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 Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Music University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Music
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Music In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Music
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Music The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Music
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Music When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Music
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Music The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) 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 Music
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Music Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Music
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Music "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde 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
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "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) Music I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Music
