Stephen Fry Quotes

There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.

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• My first car was a motorcycle.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Car
  • First
  • Motorcycle

• I never allow myself to be pressured.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Allow

• That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Passion
  • Danger
  • Attraction

• Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

  

  Ralph Cudworth
  • Mind
  • Running
  • Like

• All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Black
  • Party
  • Taken

• Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Great
  • Real
  • Space

• The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Quality

• On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Identity

• Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Past

• If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Jump
  • Racism
  • Feet

• I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Real
  • Sad
  • Fake

• Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.

  

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer
  • Past
  • Words
  • Eyes

• Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Happy

• Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rick as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Simple

• You have a gift that only you can give the world - that's the whole reason you're on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable. The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • World
  • Energy

• The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Character
  • Gospel

• My parents were marvelously educated people.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • People
  • Parent

• If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Power
  • Duty
  • Fit

• There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.

  

  Elliot S. Maggin
  • Universe
  • Difficult
  • Morality

• If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence. If

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Reason
  • Focused
  • Absence

• Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Morality
  • Fit
  • British