Stephen Fry Quotes

First love is unrequited ultimately because it’s so huge.It’s such an act of giving and it requires so much back that it can never be given back. It’s like an atom bomb. It’s like… It’s all the energy of who you are and who you want to be and what you love and what you hope to be explodes. It is impossible for a single... human being to offer that back to you in a mutual way.

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• I just don't think I'm a very good singer.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Singers

• When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Fulfilled

• RRC remains the best publication to hit my mailbox

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Publication
  • Mailbox
  • RRC

• I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."

  

  Bette Midler
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Singing

• Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Work
  • Men
  • Thinking

• I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Work
  • Great
  • Friends

• The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Direct

• When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • Children
  • School

• I feel like you can share as many jokes as you want to because no joke you do on Twitter is ever gonna be so big on Twitter, for the most part, that you can't say it on stage that same night.

  

  W. Kamau Bell
  • Night

• We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Faith
  • Jesus
  • Sound

• Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.

  

  L. M. Boyd
  • Thinking
  • High
  • Today

• If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• These two officials basically had one job to do and that was to ensure that the weight of the jockeys was recorded accurately and then disclosed to bettors, ... Instead, they misled the public and compromised the integrity of races run by NYRA.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Job
  • Integrity
  • Races

• It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Things
  • Look

• He adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Important
  • Father
  • Father Son

• Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Philosophers

• A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Thought
  • Will
  • Comes

• We've developed a reputation as pretty heavy drinkers. I don't know if that's really true. Sure, we enjoy hoisting a few pints. But then, who doesn't? We're surely not a bunch of alcoholics, though some guys in the papers would have you believe that we couldn't go on stage unless we were really cocked. That's a load of rubbish. When it comes to performing we're very professional, but after the show, we may let our hair down a bit.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • True
  • Reputation
  • Performing

• I used to say things like, 'My name's not Al (Bundy), you know?' Not to the press, but to fans. 'My name is actually Ed.' I'd find myself saying that, and I'd think, 'Who do you think they think you are? They only know you from that!' And finally I just got...I don't know, I guess a switch went on for me, and I realized, 'This was the greatest job that you've ever had in your life. Why are you acting like an asshole?' So from that minute on, I kind of...well, I hate the word 'embraced,' but I just kind of went, 'Yeah, okay.' 'So you're Al, right?' 'Yep!'

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Life
  • Why
  • Job

• Over the longer period of time it would move in exactly the wrong direction because it would encourage us to use more oil, not less.

  

  Edward Lazear
  • Time
  • Period
  • Direction

• First love is unrequited ultimately because it’s so huge.It’s such an act of giving and it requires so much back that it can never be given back. It’s like an atom bomb. It’s like… It’s all the energy of who you are and who you want to be and what you love and what you hope to be explodes. It is impossible for a single... human being to offer that back to you in a mutual way.

  

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