#ted

I loved doing 'Countdown.' I now consider that I was very, very lucky - not just because it was such a wonderful show to do, but because it lasted for so long. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#consider #doing #i #just #just because

Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won't be restricted by age. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#air #all things #even #fly #good

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#because #brother #brother and sister #family #father

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on. ↗

— Bernard De Voto

#been #day #dungeon #even #found

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy? ↗

— Robert Walpole

#before #disgrace #forty #forty years #house

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#interested #one thing #profoundly #secret #thing

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#alexander #enjoyed #head #his #never

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#foot #high #i #monarchs #naked

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#carrying #deny #departed #i #justice

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#affected #charged #court #dangers #each