Stephen Fry Quotes

As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.

Stephen Fry

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• I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your family, someone special, or dear friends.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Thinking
  • Family
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• My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Father

• I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Children

• Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Children
  • Love
  • Imagination

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
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• Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • World
  • Children
  • Special

• Around 1998, I went through lots of pressures and struggles. My children got married within eight months of each other, my son was diagnosed with cancer and went through major surgery and radiation, my mother had five life-threatening hospitalizations where I stayed with her, my husband's dental office burned to the ground.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Life
  • Children
  • Mother

• All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.

  

  Charles Fillmore
  • Thinking
  • High
  • Daily

• We'd rather pay farmers millions of dollars not to grow crops than to feed children.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Children

• I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of the British. When coupled with the violence we saw as children, that can be a fatal combination. Fortunately, I have an outlet for trauma in my writing.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Children

• The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.

  

  Charlie Rose
  • Life
  • Great
  • Children

• Most people assume that once security software is installed, they're protected. This isn't the case. It's critical that companies be proactive in thinking about security on a long-term basis.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• The nation's children, families, poor, workers, and senior citizens deserve more than lip service. They deserve more than outrage. They deserve real support, protection, and solid action.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Children
  • Real
  • Action

• You don't really know what your children are made of until the mommy engine of the family shuts down, and they are forced to step up and become the care-takers.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Up
  • Children
  • Family

• Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn't be a writer without depression.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Death

• What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Thinking
  • Photography

• Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.

  

  Chris Benz
  • Thinking

• Keep on thinking. Keep your thinking close to the ground, where it belongs. Don’t ever trade your liberty for another man’s offer to do your thinking and make your mistakes for you.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Thinking

• I would have I think made a bigger mistake if I had said, "Eh, chemical weapons. That doesn't really change my calculus." I think it was important for me as president of the United States to send a message that in fact there is something different about chemical weapons [in Syria].

  

  Barack Obama
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Important

• The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Thinking
  • Drug
  • Consciousness

• What the Internet offers is this completely unfiltered transmission of thought to thought, of psyche to psyche, and whatever you're feeling, you can just sort of put it down and send it out there, and you can do it all in the confines of your room, without any actual contact.

  

  James Lasdun
  • Feeling

• As more women have gone into the workforce, they find it harder to be a good mother and a good worker. When I go into the office, I always feel guilty. I'm thinking about the children. When I'm at home, I'm thinking about my work. So you're always under tremendous pressure. Women feel very stressed. They feel like they're working harder and harder and harder. And society is not really helping them.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Children
  • Home
  • Mother

• As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Thinking
  • Children