Tyneside Quotes & Sayings

Tyneside Ships of Steel, built by Iron Men, old skills now lost
forever, hang your heads... and weep for them. — Joe Writeson

It is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then. — Angela Thirkell

Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out. — Mark Ruffalo

The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell. — Girolamo Savonarola

As always with the greatest works, the novel is so many-sided that over time it mirrors back the shifting concerns of those who read it, and that is the definition of a classic. — Carl F. Hovde

Price mostly meanders around recent price until a big shift in opinion occurs, causing price to jump up or down. This is crudely modeled by quants using something called a jump-diffusion process model. Again, what does this have to do with an asset's true intrinsic value? Not much. Fortunately, the value-focused investor doesn't have to worry about these statistical methods and jargon. Stochastic calculus, information theory, GARCH variants, statistics, or time-series analysis is interesting if you're into it, but for the value investor, it is mostly noise and not worth pursuing. The value investor needs to accept that often price can be wrong for long periods and occasionally offers interesting discounts to value. — Nick Gogerty

When Sting arrived on Tyneside in November 1992, to receive his degree, he informed me that it was no longer me who was the skint one. — James Berryman

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it. — Sarah Addison Allen

he followed me with his eyes as if I wore a black hood and carried an axe, and he was next in line. — Robin McKinley

Reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we have relegated to the shadow is the most reliable path to actualizing all of our human potential. — Debbie Ford

It does not seem proper to speak of one attribute of God as being more central and fundamental than another; but if this were permissible, the Scriptural emphasis on the holiness of God would seem to justify its selection. — Louis Berkhof

I liked him; not because he was a good sort, as he later proved to be, but because he was enthusiastic about things. — Jack Kerouac

David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have. — Gordon Brown

But nothing lasts forever. Not — Zoe Sugg