Kirkstone Quarries Limited - Extraction and manufacture of architectural stone from two quarries in Ambleside, Northwest England, producing Kirkstone, a unique volcanic sea green stone traditionally known as Westmorland Green Slate and Brathay Blue/Black Slate.
The Woolly Rug Company - Jane Exley, designer and rug producer offers rugs made to order or from stock, using the hard wearing wool from Herdwick sheep in the Lake District.
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Business and Economy "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Business and Economy
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Business and Economy My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Business and Economy "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Business and Economy
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Business and Economy My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Business and Economy
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Business and Economy In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer 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 Business and Economy
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Business and Economy There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Business and Economy
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Business and Economy You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Business and Economy
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt 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 How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Business and Economy
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Business and Economy Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Business and Economy
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Business and Economy Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) 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 Business and Economy "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) 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 I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Business and Economy
