TheNorthEast - Provides an organised gateway to the Internet and an enquiry service managed by the region's public libraries.
Newsnorth - Regional travel news, northern arts and entertainment review, cinema and restaurant guides, accommodation, sports facilities, and attractions finder.
Structural Images of the North East - Lottery funded educational resource that contains a searchable catalogue of images of structures in the region. Information on database, photo usage, news and links.
Gay Disabled Men's Group - A place for gay disabled and able men to meet via chat room/message board. Also offers support and advice by email.
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of North East "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson North East
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov North East I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde North East
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre North East Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore North East
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "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) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre North East "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w North East
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy North East Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. North East
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown North East Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne North East
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata North East "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) 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 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 North East
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright North East "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa North East
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates North East Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "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 "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) North East
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) North East "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford North East
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith North East "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. North East