Richy horsley Quotes

“During the depression, people fought each other for boxes of groceries and if you were lucky you might get a few shillings for fighting six rounds. When Jack Johnson was World Heavyweight Champ, back in the early 1900s, Hartlepool had a brilliant boxer called Jasper Carter. People today will never have heard of him, but almost 100 years ago he put Hartlepool on the fistic map.”

“Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.”

“I like to remind myself that every morning I'm making a choice to live.”

“Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.”

“Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.”

“One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.”

“The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.”

“I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.”

“It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.”