Stephen Fry Quotes

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

Stephen Fry

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• By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Mind
  • End
  • Defeated

• Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Earth

• Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Science
  • Marketing
  • Bachelor

• The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Person
  • Theory
  • Fact

• To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Picture

• It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Society
  • Best

• For me, it's all about smaller character-driven pieces, about finding a person that I connect with and that I'm interested in bringing to life.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Life
  • Character
  • Me

• One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Saying

• Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Work
  • Women
  • Power

• These days I seem to think a lotAbout the things that I forgot to doFor youAnd all the times I had the chance to.

  

  Jackson Browne

• I'm an anti-Platonist, so I wouldn't say that stock was a stock of ideas or certainly not an ideal form, because I don't believe there is something out there, except out there. There's something in here and there's something out there, and there's mediation between the two.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Believe
  • Stock

• He looked around the landscape. Drenched in the golden haze of late afternoon it seemed wonderfully tranquil and beautiful, though permeated with a sense of remoteness and even melancholy, like a scene remembered from one’s youth.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Beautiful

• The neurosis of normality is a case of repetition compulsion caused by the repression of awareness.

  

  Sam Keen

• La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Unfortunately, the reporters ask the same questions over and over again. When reporters keep asking the same questions, they've got to recognize I may hear these questions 20 to 30 times in a matter of days. It gets to the point where I think, 'Read the other interviews!'

  

  Anderson Silva
  • May

• There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.

  

  Dav Pilkey
  • Good
  • Book
  • Feeling

• I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.

  

  Derek Theler
  • School
  • High
  • College

• Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Long
  • Live
  • She

• Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

  

  E. F. Schumacher

• Kids, kids. As far as Daddy's concerned, you're both potential murderers.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Kids
  • Daddy
  • Murderers

• I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Mind
  • Curious
  • Greedy