Pictures of Consett - Portfolio of photographs including the public art of the sculptures by the Turner prize-winning artist Tony Craggs . Located on the Consett and Sunderland Sculpture Trail.
"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) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Maps and Views In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb 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 "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Maps and Views
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Maps and Views Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Maps and Views
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Maps and Views A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Maps and Views Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Maps and Views
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Maps and Views "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Maps and Views
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Maps and Views Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Maps and Views
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Maps and Views English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Maps and Views
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Maps and Views The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Maps and Views
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "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) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Maps and Views There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Maps and Views
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Maps and Views We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Maps and Views
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Maps and Views "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Maps and Views
