The 4 Kinnells - North East based band. Photographs and gig list.
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx 4 "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) 4
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw 4 The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game 4
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "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) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt 4 "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) 4
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 4 With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) 4
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "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 Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous 4 "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons 4
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill 4 "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) 4
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa 4 Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene 4
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "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) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx 4 If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) 4
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael 4 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe 4
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4 We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner 4
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is 4 Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A My other wife is beautiful. Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington 4
