Stephen Fry Quotes

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.

Stephen Fry

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• 'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Good
  • Game
  • Always

• I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Reality
  • End

• You want to know whether I can make a long speech, such as you are in the habit of hearing; but that is not my way.

  

  Plato
  • Long
  • Habit

• You can't go home with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don't sleep with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don't get hugged by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and you don't have children with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I want what everybody else wants: to love and to be loved, and to have a family. Being in love has always been the most important thing in my life.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.

  

  William Manchester
  • Rhetoric
  • Eloquence
  • Shallow

• My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • People
  • Movies
  • Working Life

• There was no activation of any part of the brain involved in social engagement. In response to being looked at they simply went into survival mode. What does this mean for their ability to make friends and get along with others?

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Friends
  • Brain
  • Activation

• In the company of something so much larger than yourself, you’re reminded how small, petty, and insignificant the problems of your life are.

  

  Adam Fletcher
  • Life
  • Problems
  • Company

• I'm here to change things so that little girls have someone to look up to. I'm here to fight the eating-disorder battle that millions of people are having and I'm standing up and saying that's not okay. Frankly, I can't fail. I will not fail.

  

  Whitney Thompson
  • Change
  • Someone
  • Fail

• Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.

  

  Epictetus
  • Philosophy
  • Search
  • Judgement

• I try to put my culture in all my music, as much as I can.

  

  Karl Wolf
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Put

• The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Disorder
  • Swings
  • Manic