#tori

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#centuries #danger #deaths #drama #expanding

I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

#history #i #i love #interesting #interesting stories

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#born #childhood #choice #could #drawers

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#amazing #because #films #good #i

Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#after #another #bars #conducted #getting

They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#convinced #go #i #injunction #may

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#effect #generosity #great #great thing #had

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#any #appeal #broad #force #masses

That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#fact #historical #historical fact #office #plain

I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#because #category #crack #fell #fit