Northern Counties Photographic Federation - Serves Cleveland, Durham, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and most of Cumbria. Directory of clubs, special interest groups, events in the area, and contact details.
Northern Focus - Newsletter of the Northern Counties Photographic Federation, with diary of events, articles on club activities, and photographers' profiles.
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Photography I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "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) Photography
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara 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 Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Photography Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Photography
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene 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 He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Photography Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Photography
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Photography "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Photography
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Photography If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Photography
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Photography Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Photography
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Photography We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur 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 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Photography
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Photography "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) 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 The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Photography
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Photography Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Photography
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Photography Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back 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 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 Photography
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 "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "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) Photography Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Photography
