Stephen Fry Quotes

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

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• Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • Habit
  • Professors
  • Simply

• Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.

  

  Daniel Harvey Hill
  • Drinking
  • Students
  • Faculty

• The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Ideas
  • Loses
  • Awful

• To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Willing
  • Loses
  • Sight

• Just because you become a mother, it doesn't mean you lose who you are.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Mother
  • Mean
  • Loses

• We lose all that time which we might employ better.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Might

• One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Loses
  • Laughs

• If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money. That is speculating.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Money
  • Loses
  • Convince

• I don’t have to win. I just have to make you lose.

  

  Maurice Saatchi
  • Winning
  • Loses

• Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Health
  • Winning
  • Wise

• [R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Influences
  • Faculty

• If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other.

  

  Epictetus
  • Stupid
  • Choice
  • Improve

• He who hoards much loses much.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Loses
  • Hoards

• I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Years
  • Said
  • Cry

• Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Loses
  • Hinduism
  • Temples

• I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • People
  • Book
  • Firsts

• It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Fun
  • Games
  • Loses

• I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • God
  • Judging
  • Possess

• As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.

  

  George Eliot
  • Memory
  • Flag
  • Faculty

• I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Kids
  • Ideas
  • Competition

• You want to reclaim your country? You got to go back to the first men who started this country, the founding fathers and this is going to be shocking for the liberal professors out there that are indoctrinating our kids but the founding fathers believed in the Judeo-Christian god that believed we have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! You can pursuit it. If you don't get it, it's your fault! You messed up. Go back to work. Work harder.

  

  Brad Stine
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Liberty

• Acting was always something I pursued by myself. When we were in college, I took an acting class that I was so passionate about and devoted to, but I went to it privately and never really spoke about it. I'd have these ecstatic experiences in, like, a church basement and then never talk about it with other people.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • People
  • College
  • Church

• Mr. Marx does not believe in God, but he believes deeply in himself. His heart is filled not with love but with rancor. He has very little benevolence toward men and becomes... furious and... spiteful... when anyone dares question the omniscience of the divinity whom he adores, that is to say, Mr. Marx himself.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Believe
  • Christian
  • Spiteful

• Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Loses
  • Professors
  • Faculty