Radio Directory - Covers all aspects of analogue commercial radio in the UK.
"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-) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Directories "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 opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Directories
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Directories That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Directories
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Directories Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Directories
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Directories Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Directories
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "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) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Directories "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) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Directories
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Directories Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Directories
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Directories "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Directories
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Directories Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Directories
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Directories "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Directories
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "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.) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Directories "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Directories
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Directories "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Directories
