VR Views of Bristol - 360 degree views of 21 local landmarks. [Requires Qucktime Active X plugin].
Views of Bristol - Photographs by Noel Stanton, accompanied by a short description of the city and its history.
Martyn's Mix Webcam - Showing a variety of views, outside and inside, plus a picture archive.
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Maps and Views Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Maps and Views
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "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 I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Maps and Views He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Maps and Views
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee 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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Maps and Views Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "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, ignorance, g Maps and Views Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Maps and Views
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Maps and Views "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Maps and Views
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Maps and Views Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Maps and Views
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Maps and Views For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Maps and Views
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Maps and Views 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 Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Maps and Views
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Maps and Views There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Maps and Views
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Maps and Views Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Maps and Views
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Maps and Views Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Maps and Views
