Oultwood: Tyne and Wear - Directory of local government web sites using clickable maps and lists.
Tyne and Wear Research and Information - A research body funded by the five local metropolitan boroughs. Provides data on population, social trends, businesses and downloadable fact cards on each area.
Northumbria Police Authority - Setting and monitoring the policing plan for Tyne and Wear and Northumberland. Details of how the organisation works and police and community forum dates.
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Government There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Government
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Government The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Government
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Government Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Government
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Government Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Government Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Government
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Government No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Government
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Government In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Government
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Government All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Government
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Government People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Government There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Government
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Government The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Government
