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Colinton Burns Club - Promoting Robert Burns, includes events and contacts.
Edinburgh Filmhouse - Schedules, merchandise, film information from Edinburgh's alternative filmhouse.
The Scottish Arts Club - An exclusive members club situated in the heart of Edinburgh, whose members primary interests are the Arts.
Edinburgh Events Guide - Edinburgh events guide: cinema, theatre, music, tours, galleries, museums, art, shopping and other events.
Quotable Edinburgh - An illustrated collection of quotes relating to the City.
ALP Scots Music Group - Scottish music education, information, and resources for musicians, singers, dancers and learners, and anyone interested in Scottish music and dance.
Edinburgh Santa Hat Party - Annual Christmas pub crawl through the city. Gives meeting details, list of pubs on the route and photographs of previous crawls.
Edinburgh Film Guild - News forthcoming events, full listings of films, gallery of stills and details on how to join the guild.
Edinburgh University Film Society - Holds weekly meetings and regular film showings. Joining information, film reviews, mailing list and forum.
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Arts and Entertainment "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman Arts and Entertainment Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Arts and Entertainment "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov Arts and Entertainment "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin "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) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Arts and Entertainment Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Arts and Entertainment It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin Arts and Entertainment "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Arts and Entertainment Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore Arts and Entertainment If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Arts and Entertainment Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Arts and Entertainment Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous 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 Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Arts and Entertainment Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Arts and Entertainment Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw 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 There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler Arts and Entertainment "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "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) "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) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts and Entertainment
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