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Northern Children's Book Festival - Promoting the 17th book festival organised by the region's 12 library services for children in the North East and involving the UK's leading children's authors.
Photos of Tyneside in the '20s and '30s - Photographs of Tyneside by H.S. Thorne. All black and white photographs with images of Newcastle upon Tyne, shipping scenes and the construction of the Tyne Bridge.
Dame Catherine Cookson - British writer 1906 to 1998, born in Tyne Dock near Jarrow, who wrote popular novels featuring the life and culture of the north east of England. Brief biography and list of works.
Culture 2008 - News about Gateshead and Newcastle's joint venture for the European Capital of Culture award.
Murder Mystery Newcastle - A night out for parties, birthdays or special occasions at north east country hotels and castles.
Poetry Vandals - Venue details for forthcoming performances, reviews and a selection of work.
Billy Mitchell - Official website local musician and performer. Details of gigs, blog, contacts, acting, Lindisfarne and reviews.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) 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) Arts and Entertainment Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Arts and Entertainment Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans Arts and Entertainment I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. -- Maurice Maeterlink Arts and Entertainment Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "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) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Arts and Entertainment "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) 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 Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Arts and Entertainment God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt "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 Arts and Entertainment Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber Arts and Entertainment cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and Arts and Entertainment It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov Arts and Entertainment "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa Arts and Entertainment Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard 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 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I Arts and Entertainment Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau Arts and Entertainment Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student Arts and Entertainment Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins "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) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Arts and Entertainment The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Arts and Entertainment We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Arts and Entertainment blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea 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 Arts and Entertainment
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