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Belfast Arts and Heritage - Office of Belfast City Council. Includes an extensive directory of all things arts-related, bulletin board and downloadable forms to apply for funding.
Belfast City Coucil Arts - The site includes a searchable database of arts related resources, together with news, information, and funding details.
The Lyric Theatre Belfast - Full time repertory theatre with news, reviews and current shows.
Aardvark Balloon Company - Children's entertainment provider. Picture gallery, balloon modelling, clowning, and face painting. Contact facilities and guestbook.
Odyssey Pavilion - Site contains information on bars, restaurants and cinemas located in the Pavilion, and corporate opportunities for businesses.
Belfast Community Circus - Includes information about events and shows, training courses and workshops.
Queens University, Belfast Science Fiction and Fantasy Society - Information on events and resources organised members, including the annual convention.
Factotum - Arts organisation with information of their projects.
Belfast Arts Initiative - Arts collective that aim to combine the cultures and arts from all parts of the city. Website also includes training information, gallery and publications.
The Linen Hall Library - Subscription library with unique collections of books, manuscripts, pamphlets, genealogical sources, graphic images and ephemera for Irish and local studies. Includes news, membership details and visitor information.
The Crescent Arts Centre - Provides details of education/outreach classes, workshops, events and exhibitions.
Centre Stage - Professional touring theatre with information on productions. Also offers drama activity holidays.
Poetic Spirit - Original poetry and prose by W A Mack.
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Arts and Entertainment The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Arts and Entertainment No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Arts and Entertainment "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Arts and Entertainment There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe Arts and Entertainment "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Arts and Entertainment "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Arts and Entertainment I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Arts and Entertainment "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Arts and Entertainment Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Arts and Entertainment The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes "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 Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Arts and Entertainment The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the m Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt Arts and Entertainment "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda Arts and Entertainment 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, It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh Arts and Entertainment "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun Arts and Entertainment A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides Arts and Entertainment I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard Arts and Entertainment There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy Arts and Entertainment
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