Economic Development North Tyneside - Council-run initiative to increase investment and employment in the area. Details of business teams, support, local information and statistics.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Business and Economy "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Business and Economy If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Business and Economy
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Business and Economy
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Business and Economy In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Business and Economy There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Business and Economy
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Business and Economy The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Business and Economy
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Business and Economy "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Business and Economy
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Business and Economy One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Business and Economy "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Business and Economy
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara 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 Business and Economy "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Business and Economy
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "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) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Business and Economy Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Business and Economy
