Stephen Fry Quotes

What makes a good family? Well, I suppose obviously love. Love lubricated often I think by humor. I think a family that can laugh at each other and tease themselves and who are able to be jolly with each other I think is the key.

Stephen Fry

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There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

Walter Dean Myers
- Time
- Thinking
- Black
We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.

Gabriel Byrne
- People
- Time
- Thinking
I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

Tadao Ando
- Thinking
- Future
- Past
Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Barbara Januszkiewicz
- Thinking
- Change
- Ideas
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

Edith Sitwell
- Time
- Thinking
- Myself
'In church I was told that if I so much as smoked a cigarette or tasted alcohol, I’d be damned in hell for all eternity...it didn’t take long for me to start thinking that sounded all wrong ...I didn’t cotton to the idea that your religion should be flaunted to other people. Your religion is for you, and is best kept close to your heart.'

Willie Nelson
- People
- Thinking
- Long