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Alston Cybermoor - Offers a range of online information and services to the residents of Alston Moor parish, from free web-mail and discussion forums, to information on community events and local services.
Images Of Cumbria - Alston Parish - Alston Parish description, transcribed from Mannix and Whellan, 1847. By Steve Bulman.
Alston Model Railway Centre - Model railway exhibition and shop - permanent exhibition open all year. Shop stocking locomotives, rolling stock, scenic materials and accessories, controllers, paints, and tools.
Hartside Top Transport Cafe Truck Stop - Details available about hours of business and facilities available. The highest cafe in England at 1904 feet above sea leavel.
Gorcam Gallery - A collection of photographs of Alston in Cumbria, including the South Tynedale Railway, the making of Jane Eyre in Alston and the making of Oliver Twist in Alston.
The Cumbria Directory: Alston - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen 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 Alston "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) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W Alston "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea Alston Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Alston The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations Alston In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi Alston "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein Alston I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Alston This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "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) Alston "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) 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 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Alston The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars -- Les Brown A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Alston Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Alston Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres Alston "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde Alston "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand Alston None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Alston In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Alston Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf Alston To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Alston "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Alston Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard Alston "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Alston
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