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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for.

  

  Donald Judd
  • People
  • American

• I always thought what you wore underneath was as important as what you wear on top.

  

  Donna Karan
  • Important

• Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.

  

  Bernard Werber
  • World
  • Future
  • Science

• Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Mind
  • Afraid
  • Sorrows

• Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Communion was born out of shared frustration in 2006. We felt that although the likes of MySpace and YouTube opened up the playing field for songwriters online, people's discovery of these new artists was only skin deep.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • People
  • Up
  • Deep

• I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.

  

  George Washington
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Care

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

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Mind
  • Curious
  • Greedy