Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre - Situated at the Old Lower Light, Portland Bill was established to provide a focal point and accommodation for visiting naturalists, particularly birdwatchers
6 Cove Park - A privately owned holiday bungalow. Includes information about the accommodation, a picture gallery, a map, price list and contact details.
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-- General Douglas MacArthur Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel and Tourism "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Travel and Tourism
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Travel and Tourism Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Travel and Tourism
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 We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Travel and Tourism "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Travel and Tourism
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Travel and Tourism "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Travel and Tourism
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Travel and Tourism If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Travel and Tourism
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "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) 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 Travel and Tourism Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Travel and Tourism
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Travel and Tourism University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism
"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) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Travel and Tourism I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Travel and Tourism
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Travel and Tourism No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Travel and Tourism
