Stephen Fry Quotes

Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.

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• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • War
  • Peace

• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Free

• Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Change

• Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Game

• I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Japanese

• I don't mind running; I don't mind taking a few knocks. But hopefully, it's just not 'Sam's an action dude.' That, to me, is not what I wanted. I wanted to bring a sense of weight and emotionality of doing Australian films and bring that into a bigger blockbuster, so you're not just kind of grunting and groaning and running around.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Hopefully

• Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I sleep for about four hours a night, or day really. I go to bed at, like, 9 A.M., sleep for four hours, then get up and start the day again. I don't mind if that's not healthy.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Night

• My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Prism

• The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

  

  Ralph Cudworth
  • Mind
  • True
  • Science

• Turkish cuisine is, to my mind, one of the most exciting and accomplished in the world.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • World
  • Mind
  • Accomplished

• The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Mind
  • Sense
  • Nonsense

• The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • True

• A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• And clenching your fist for the ones like us who are oppressed by the figures of beauty, you fixed yourself, you said, 'Well never mind, we are ugly but we have the music.'

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Ugly

• It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Mind

• How shall we define a god? Expressed in psychological terms (which are primary-there is no getting behind them) a god is something that gives us the peculiar kind of feeling which Professor Otto has called 'numinous'. Numinous feelings are the original god-stuff from which the theory-making mind extracts the individualised gods of the pantheon.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • God
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• Louis deliberately chose someone who hadn’t been to university because theories of animal behaviour at that time were very rigid, and Louis didn’t want someone whose mind was biased in that way. Wise man. But still I had the responsibility to prove myself. I remember looking up at the hills and wondering, 'Can I do it?'

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• The mind is really powerful.

  

  Oksana Masters
  • Mind
  • Powerful

• But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Soul

• It was a very rare moment in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant accident. Ordinary people went out to the streets to speak anti-nuclear sentiments.

  

  Ryuichi Sakamoto
  • Moment
  • Streets
  • Ordinary

• 'Fight Master' is a proving ground for young, aspiring fighters who want a chance to play on a bigger stage. That's something it has in common with 'The Ultimate Fighter,' which has always been like a farm league for the UFC, a place to develop new talent.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Chance
  • Fight
  • Talent

• For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

  

  Lynda Barry
  • Color

• Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Mind
  • Misunderstood