Stephen Fry Quotes

I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.

Stephen Fry

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• Beauty without expression is boring.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
  • Expression
  • Boring

• I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Person
  • Thought
  • Expression

• Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Society
  • Expression
  • Last

• I like PETA as a group for many reasons, but one of the reasons that I admire them is that they say and do the things that other groups won't do.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Group
  • Admire
  • They Say

• It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Afraid
  • Expression
  • Cotton

• I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Admire

• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Expression
  • Played
  • Relation

• I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • People
  • Admire
  • Heroes

• There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • Pleasure

• I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren't necessarily big sellers.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • People
  • Talent
  • Admire

• Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.

  

  James Brown
  • Up
  • Sex
  • Expression

• Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Words
  • Wish
  • Expression

• The work of our missionaries is a magnificent expression of the Lord's redeeming love.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Work
  • Lord
  • Expression

• An excellent precept for writers: Have a clear idea of all the phrases and expressions you need, and you will find them.

  

  Ximénès Doudan
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Expression

• Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for God's glory come to expression is in their prayers. If there is little energy for such prayer, and little consequent practice of it, this is a sure sign that as yet we scarcely know our God.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Men
  • Energy

• ...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Artist

• Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• The rice bowl is to me the most valid reason in the world for doing anything. A piece of one's soul to the multitudes in return for rice and wine does not seem to me a sacrilege.

  

  Han Suyin
  • World
  • Soul
  • Reason

• But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In spite of human pride, he is still your brother, and mine, in form and color accepted and approved by his Father, and yours, and mine, and bears equally with us the proudest inheritance of our race - the image of our Maker. Hold him then to be a Man.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Father

• THERE IS A CERTAIN depth of illness that is piercing in its isolation; the only rule of existence is uncertainty, and the only movement is the passage of time.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Movement
  • Illness
  • Isolation

• You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • World
  • America
  • Today

• I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Expression
  • Admire
  • Disgusting