Stephen Fry Quotes

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

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• Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
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• I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Up
  • Always
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• To be great is to be misunderstood.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
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• The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Free
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• Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
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  • Solitude

• Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Time
  • Complaining

• For me, for a very long time, I was in denial because when you say you're sad or you're overwhelmed, we consider it whining or complaining. People say, 'Count your blessings,' and it's like, 'Yeah, I am, but I'm still sad. Something is wrong with me.' I had to acknowledge it.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!

  

  Dav Pilkey
  • Complaining

• I enthuse about Scrivener to all of my friends. Some of them even listen to me and download it. This is often swiftly followed by an email complaining that it's all very confusing, and they'll stick to Microsoft Word, thanks.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • Friends
  • Thanks
  • Complaining

• I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Twitter. I know a lot of celebrities who go around complaining how little privacy they have. And then my question to that is always, 'Well, how much of yourself are you putting out there?'

  

  Cote de Pablo
  • Question
  • Complaining

• The public doesn't want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.

  

  Kristen Wiig
  • People
  • Taken
  • Picture

• Just as I am working hard to adjust to a new level, someone comes along and asks me to move up again. I'm not complaining about it; I just get on with trying to make sure I don't let anyone down. Training with England is just a different gravy again. Movement-wise, finishing-wise, you can learn such a lot from watching the very best in action.

  

  Jamie Vardy
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

  

  Francois Fenelon
  • Complaining

• I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Time
  • Enjoy
  • Fine

• I've done a lot of complaining here, but of all the things I've complained about, I can't complain about my life.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Life
  • Done
  • I Can

• I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Think
  • Mistake
  • Really

• ...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Thankful
  • Complaining

• Raindrops keep fallin' on my head. But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red. Crying's not for me. Cause I ain't gonna stop the rain by complaining.

  

  Billy Joe "B.J." Thomas
  • Stop
  • Eyes
  • Mean

• If a person weren't failing in some way, shape or form, would he or she need to blame, justify, or complain? The obvious answer is no.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • She
  • Needs
  • Secret

• I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, 'Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.'

  

  Mako
  • Up
  • Music
  • Why

• I married somebody half my age, and everybody thought I was crazy, but she is just an absolute angel.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • She
  • Age
  • Crazy

• What is a harp but an over-sized cheese-slicer with cultural pretensions?

  

  Denis Norden

• No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Complaining
  • Misunderstood