James Saunders - Online CV and design portfolio, with information about web managing experience.
Worcester Snoezelen - A sensory environment for people with learning difficulties, including a tactile corridor, hydrotherapy, and a white room. Site gives details of the Snoezelen concept, and the facilities available.
Battle Of Worcester - A full re-enactment of this English Civil War battle (1651) commemorating the 350th anniverary and supporting events hosted by Worcester City Council and The Sealed Knot.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Society and Culture The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Society and Culture
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen 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 Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Society and Culture May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Society and Culture
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone 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 "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Society and Culture "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Society and Culture A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf 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. Society and Culture
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words 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 My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov 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. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Society and Culture
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Society and Culture "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture
"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) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Society and Culture
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Society and Culture "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) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Society and Culture We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Society and Culture
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Society and Culture Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
