Stephen Fry Quotes

Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.

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• God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • God
  • Experience
  • Energy

• When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Good
  • Children
  • Too Much

• I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Myself

• I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us

  

  Jackson Browne

• On reason build resolve,that column of true majesty in man.

  

  Edward Young
  • True

• Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Light
  • Drama
  • Summer

• Most of America never noticed, but the 1990s were good times for trailer homes, a.k.a. manufactured housing. From 1991 to 1998, annual sales of manufactured homes more than doubled, to 374,000 from 174,000.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Good
  • America
  • Sales

• Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi
  • Time

• The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Women
  • Love
  • Revolution

• With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.

  

  Kevin Rose

• I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.

  

  Egon Schiele
  • Father

• If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary to segregate African American soldiers from other American soldiers, and say, 'It's just a cultural thing'? I don't think so. I would hope not.

  

  Martha McSally
  • American
  • Hope

• If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress.

  

  Dennis Rodman

• Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Nature

• I've never run a company before, and I don't want to feel like a boss. I just want to turn up and do my work.

  

  Markus Persson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Boss

• The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.

  

  Delmore Schwartz
  • Country
  • History

• He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.

  

  Mary Lou Williams

• Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism; it is an important part of promoting peace.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Important
  • Peace

• To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Alone
  • Bee

• The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Power
  • My Wife

• To know you are in the company with people who love and care for each other, as well as for whatever they are working on, is almost essential.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People

• Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Sleep
  • Glory
  • Window