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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru - National Library of Wales - Useful information for readers and visitors. Includes a description of the collections, catalogues, and online resources, family history, the Digital Mirror. English/Cymraeg.
Sgrîn - Media agency for Wales. Administer grants and offer advice, encouragement and support in film-making, film exhibition, distribution and related fields. It is also is the home of the Wales Film and Television Archive.
Wales Arts International - Collaboration between the British Council Wales and the Arts Council of Wales to raise the profile of the arts. Includes information on art coming into the Principality and developed with it. Feature special section on Welsh music.
National Museums and Galleries of Wales - Guide to Welsh museums and galleries, including a what's on guide along with details of the collections.
Artcymru - Database showcasing the best of the arts. Provides a listing of artists, writers, and performers.
Oriel Cambria Studios - Welsh online art gallery
Events Wales - What's on guide covering music, theatre, cinema, live shows, exhibitions, club nights, agricultural sales, festivals and eisteddfods.
Variety Stars - Variety, cabaret, music and entertainment agency. Includes list of current acts.
Welsh Jokes and Humour - Welsh jokes, stories, one liners, and humour.
Wild West Wales - Information and links of organisations and events in Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, and Ceredigion, with an emphasis on the arts.
Grifter - Designed to showcase the creative talents of those known to the Grifter. Includes film makers, bands and artists.
Cinema Wales - Features information on Welsh film and television including movies, writers, arts and documentary films.
The Mabinogion - Ancient Welsh stories from approx 400BC - AD600. Includes the entire text, as translated by Lady Charlotte Guest.
Valley Strem Media Developments - Audio-visual producers, publishers, and distributors. Includes a catalogue of videos, information on facilities and training, and company history.
Adrian James - Wales in Watercolour - Gallery of watercolour landscape paintings and a workshop of watercolour techniques for artists.
National Eisteddfod of Wales - Information about the 2001 Eisteddfod, a festival of welsh culture, literature and history. Includes location, webcast, webcam, history, and sponsors.
BBC -Capture Wales - Real Media movies made and edited by people at workshops around the country.
Entertainment in Wales - A searchable directory of entertainment, entertainers, bands, musicians, tuition and related services in Wales. Community board and Gig/What's on board.
Stuart Watkins - Profile of "The Welsh Wizard", a magician specialising in close-up and mentalist performances.
National Youth Arts Wales - A resource for young people, musicians, actors, dancers, directors, conductors, composers, choreographers, designers, stage managers, theatre technicians, teachers, pupils and members of the arts and educational communities.
Women in Tune - Organises an annual Women's Music Festival in West Wales, every August. Information about programme, venue, facilities, fundraising, past festivals, and the organisation.
Voluntary Arts Wales - Network, information and advice for the voluntary arts sector.
Real Institute - Not for profit multidisciplinary arts organisation. Events, aims and contact information. North Wales.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France Arts and Entertainment 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 "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and Arts and Entertainment Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life Arts and Entertainment "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling 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 Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels Arts and Entertainment The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment 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 "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio Arts and Entertainment The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Arts and Entertainment "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) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Arts and Entertainment If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil Arts and Entertainment The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Arts and Entertainment There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills Arts and Entertainment We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Arts and Entertainment 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 If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington Arts and Entertainment Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler Arts and Entertainment An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Arts and Entertainment Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley 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 blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Arts and Entertainment Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata Arts and Entertainment By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Arts and Entertainment How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac Arts and Entertainment
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