Horrible Histories Quotes

#1. I was the girl in the background, the just-friend, or - worse - the friend of a just-friend, the you-sit-next-to-her-in-geometry-but-can't-remember-her-name girl. It would have been better if some middle-aged collector of Star Wars action figures had found me in that snowbank.

Rick Yancey

#2. Man is preoccupied with freedom yet laden with handicaps. The breadth of his activity and experience is narrowed by the limitations of his relatively weak, sluggish body. The racehorse, by virtue of his awesome physical gifts, freed the jockey from himself.

Laura Hillenbrand

#3. I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

Sylvia Plath

#4. I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.

David Price

#5. Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

Natalie Wood

#6. The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#7. I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

Christopher Hitchens

#8. It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.

Wm. Paul Young

#9. Make someone else do it... and the job is done"
The shouty man. (Jim Howick)Horrible Histories.

C.G. Hassack

#10. One way of feeling infallible is not to keep a diary

George Orwell

#11. I know there's a difference between being successful and feeling successful. And if you ask me if I feel successful, the honest answer is 'not yet.'

Simon Sinek

#12. Honey, Don't go shooting all the dogs 'cause one of them's got fleas

Paul Newman

#13. There is a book on Amazon: Destroying cancer (Tumors) with Ultrasound
Why nobody, not even his doctors told him about this method? ! ? !

Steve Jobs

#14. The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.

Alice Cooper

#15. Creating lines that went straight into the interior [of a space station] was a recipe for disaster. Some knucklehead in an X-wing was bound to come along and drop an energy torpedo into your main power plant, and everyone knows how that ends.

John Ringo