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

• There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Epigrams

• Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Girl
  • Mean
  • Changed

• To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Deep
  • Beloved
  • Goes On

• Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Character
  • Subjects
  • Weed

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

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Morality
  • Fit
  • British