Stephen Fry Quotes

Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all astrology is absolutely and without reservation the bullest of bullsh*t that ever there was. It is a senseless delusion that does not even have the benefit of being harmless fun. It is a harmful bore. Harmful to the human spirit, harmful to the dignity and wonder of the real universe and the real power of the mind to think for itself. I hate astrology with a fervor that is almost frightening. - Stephen Fry (when asked what sign he would be if he could create his own zodiac)

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• Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Money
  • Fun
  • College

• My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

  

  Gail Porter
  • People
  • Thinking
  • She

• I had the strong sense that I really wanted to be a SEAL, and I started thinking, 'Look, I don't ever want to look back and feel I have any regrets.'

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Strong

• I had no idea what modeling entailed and what an agency was. It was crazy. As I continued to do it, it was fun for me to learn everything from A to Z.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Fun
  • Crazy
  • Learn

• I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Fun
  • Single
  • Looking

• The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Island

• Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Mind
  • Law
  • Wonder

• I don't know what's wrong with me, but like, the second I stop working, I have a panic attack, so it's good for me to be thinking of projects ahead of time and lining things up.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.

  

  Daniel Johnston
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• That was when I found out that you could talk to them and it was a whole other way to blow your stack, and it's so much fun to perform that you want to do it again and the more you get out of it the better.

  

  Leo Kottke
  • Fun
  • Blow

• I did a lot of trapeze stuff when I did 'Pippin' and continued to do it afterward. Flying is so fun, and I was used to the harness idea, but these harnesses are like intense, full bodysuit things.

  

  Ciara Renee
  • Fun
  • Flying

• I am paid a good amount of money to not blink for 12 hours. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Good
  • Money
  • Fun

• I worry that I am not really a person anymore: I'm more of just a writing machine. I wonder what that has done to either my life and or my art.

  

  David Shields
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Done

• Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

  

  Andre Geim
  • Thinking
  • Progress
  • Adventure

• Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that's what the consultant said I had.

  

  John Prescott
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Suffering

• 'I feel that very rarely have I done any work in my life. I have a good time. I'm exploring. I'm playing a game, solving puzzles, and having fun, and for some reason people have been willing to pay me for it. Officially, I was supposed to retire years ago, but retire from what? Why stop having a good time?'

  

  Charles H. Townes
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Thinking
  • Universe
  • Motivational

• My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Great
  • Write
  • Grandmother

• We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Honor
  • Laughing

• I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • I Believe

• The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Time
  • Great
  • Light

• Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all astrology is absolutely and without reservation the bullest of bullsh*t that ever there was. It is a senseless delusion that does not even have the benefit of being harmless fun. It is a harmful bore. Harmful to the human spirit, harmful to the dignity and wonder of the real universe and the real power of the mind to think for itself. I hate astrology with a fervor that is almost frightening. - Stephen Fry (when asked what sign he would be if he could create his own zodiac)

  

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