Stephen Fry Quotes

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

Stephen Fry

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• I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Sense
  • Living
  • Lucky

• Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Doing
  • Lord
  • Rings

• I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Knowing

• The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Like
  • Happiness
  • Knowing

• The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • You
  • Knowing
  • Turning Point

• I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Like
  • Ideas
  • Knowing

• Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Day
  • Year
  • Knowing

• I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Afraid
  • Knowing
  • Satisfaction

• Unsuccessful people get up whenever they feel like it and the first thing they do is watch television, read the paper, or check email. The rest of the day is pretty much 50% below maximum performance.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

  

  Eamon Duffy
  • History
  • Failure
  • Knowing

• My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Father
  • Couple
  • California

• I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Truth

• I got that first record out, it came out in '47... Then my name began to ring around. I began to take over. From that point, I tell you, Chicago was in my hand, all the more time that those guys had to listen to me.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Hand

• I quickly said that, because of my loyalty to 'Star Trek' and also just being a fan, I wouldn’t even want to be involved in the next version of those things. I declined any involvement very early on. I’d rather be in the audience not knowing what was coming, rather than being involved in the minutiae of making them.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Star
  • Stars
  • Knowing

• But everybody there knew 'Lord of the Rings,' ... It's really amazing.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Amazing
  • Lord
  • Rings

• The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Tree
  • Knowing

• Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.

  

  David Deida
  • Truth
  • Feeling
  • Profound

• Everyone wants to know about the gold ring. Everyone knows already - it's ridiculous.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Want
  • Knows
  • Gold

• if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • VIolin
  • Strings
  • Ache

• You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'

  

  RaeLynn
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• Once you do a joke and it works it's only good for so long, like shooting fish in a barrel.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Long
  • Jokes
  • Shooting

• She was afraid, but she couldn't just sit around waiting for someone to save her. She had to try to save herself, try to figure it out.

  

  Melissa Marr
  • Trying
  • Waiting
  • Figures

• It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Knowing
  • Rings
  • E-mail