Tyneside Digital Imaging Group - History of the group, programme, pictures by members, technical tips and links to digital sites.
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Photography Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Photography
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Photography If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt 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 Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Photography "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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 Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Photography
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Photography blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Photography
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Photography 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 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 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 Photography
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Photography A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Photography
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) 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 Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Photography Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Photography
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Photography "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Photography
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Photography Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Photography
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous 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 When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Photography A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Photography
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 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 Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge 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 "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Photography
