Stephen Fry Quotes

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

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• When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • God
  • Belief
  • Dies

• Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Market
  • Well
  • Manager

• I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Good
  • Perfect
  • Woman

• Speaking is physically difficult for me.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Me
  • Difficult
  • Speaking

• To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Home
  • Business
  • American

• Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • History
  • Fighting

• I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Mostly

• I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Important
  • Children
  • Remember

• I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Love
  • Beach
  • Walks

• Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Know
  • More
  • Nerd

• I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Night
  • Know
  • Born

• You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • You
  • Motivational
  • Machine

• The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • City
  • Now
  • British

• I love 'Enter the Dragon,' and I love Japanese movies. I love Jackie Chan movies; they are my heroes.

  

  Rain
  • Movies
  • Heroes
  • Dragon

• French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• I respect all the fighters. I respect Jon Jones. I respect Chris Weidman, but I'm here for working.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Respect

• Rebecca Eaton has made an enormous contribution to the cultural life of America, and, more than that, she is one of the most fun people I know.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age.

  

  David Gross
  • Family
  • Age
  • Childhood

• The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • People
  • Satisfaction
  • Chains

• I think 'Piranha' won't be in the guilty-pleasure category, because it's gonna be - well, yeah, maybe for some people. From what I've seen, it has a sense of humor about itself, and it's also really scary and really, really violent. I would call it a popcorn movie from the planet Popcorn.

  

  Adam Scott
  • People
  • Movie
  • Scary

• There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.

  

  Mary Karr
  • Women
  • Sobriety

• We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.

  

  Dave Haywood Lady Antebellum
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• ...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Computer