Stephen Fry Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
-
I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
-
I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
-
I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
-
Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
-
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
-
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
-
My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.
-
I have a noble body. It adapts to all I ask of it.
-
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
-
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
-
I would like to leave the world a better place than when I entered it. I would hope that by the time I die I could have learned from the years of living and hand something down.
-
I had a lot of respect for Biggie, and it was just a weird, kinda difficult thing. When I'm doing touchy interviews like that, I just try to be fair to both parties.
-
Some of my favorite memories happened in the 'Boy Meets World' classroom.
-
I'd been horse-riding a couple of times, but I wasn't that good.
-
Silence is absorption, and when you're watching a film and you're that quiet and you're that still, at least from my experience of watching films, that indicates an absorption, where you're really in the moment. You're really present. What you're seeing is vital to you in that moment, and it's tingling, and it's alive, and it matters.
-
I'm syndicated on the radio - my show is called 'The Sweat Hotel.'
-
In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.
-
I loved 'Gladiator,' and I thought its depiction of gladiatorial combat, although it was an aggrandizing picture, was cleverly and expertly done.
-
A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.
-
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
-
In many ways, I think I've always overcompensated. I was always almost too careful, because I knew if anybody ever found any way to doubt my work, then they'd start picking my life apart, too.
-
My parents were marvelously educated people.
