Stephen Fry Quotes

And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.

Stephen Fry

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• The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Mean
  • Scary
  • Horror

• I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.

  

  J. Milton Hayes
  • God
  • Heart
  • Mad

• Never could I tell, try as I might, what it actually was that I saw; nor could the still face tell, for although it must have seen more than I did, it will never speak again. But always I shall guard against the mocking and insatiate Hypnos, lord of sleep, against the night sky, and against the mad ambitions of knowledge and philosophy.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Night
  • Knowledge
  • Sleep

• He is not mad in the least. He's a very astute person, a clever person.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Mad
  • Clever

• I'm just mad about Fourteen Fourteen's mad about me

  

  Donovan
  • Mad

• To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

  

  Logic
  • Mad

• The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Great
  • Money
  • Financial

• I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money.

  

  Ann Rutherford
  • Money
  • Depression

• I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Up
  • House
  • Growing

• I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street fair, and we were playing on the back of a flatbed truck. There was an ad in the paper, and it said that 'Hybird' is playing. I was so mad.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Remember
  • Band
  • Mad

• You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh... it's as simple as that.

  

  Jay Leno
  • Simple
  • Mad

• You look at 'Arrested Development' or 'Community,' we're constantly either deconstructing genre or tone. We like to say it's like being a mad scientist: you get to play in a laboratory and experiment with directions to take narrative in.

  

  Joe Russo
  • Community
  • Mad

• I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.

  

  Chad Michael Murray
  • Happy
  • Hurt
  • Mad

• What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: 'Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?' If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours.

  

  James Lovelock
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

  

  Jerry Stiller
  • People
  • Great
  • Men

• I'm a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can't eat too many because then you get Gummi tummy, and that's no good.

  

  Jensen Ackles
  • Good
  • Mad

• The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a sh*t.

  

  Banksy
  • Time
  • Mean
  • Famous

• If it were up to me, it'd be outlawed. I mean, come on. Zach Braff was born streamlined, and that's how it should stay!

  

  Zach Braff
  • Up
  • Mean
  • Should

• As a kid, I did some running but especially loved biking and swimming. I grew up on Long Island, and our mom took us all the time to the ocean, so I grew up doing open-water swimming in the Atlantic.

  

  Alice Dreger
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• All the utopianism of the early days of the Internet seems to have dissipated. But I don't want us to lose that utopianism altogether, even if it was naïve and ill-informed and sometimes silly. Rather I want us to ask about the obstacles that are preventing the good stuff from coming to fruition. Let's investigate and think about creating something worthwhile instead of assuming that there is an inevitable track of increased centralization, consolidation, and commercialization that we can't do anything about.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Internet

• Before 9/11, al-Qaeda was an organization of global reach.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Organization

• And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Mean
  • Mad
  • Depression