Stephen Fry Quotes

I do believe that almost everything I do is based on my feelings, not on my intellect. Though But we won't chase ourselves up the particular sentiment, or we'll get lost.

Stephen Fry

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• What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Work
  • Attention

• I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Good
  • Always
  • Struggle

• Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • World
  • Travel
  • Chance

• I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • College
  • Mom

• One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Strange
  • Negative
  • Publicity

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Up
  • Age
  • Growing

• He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Impossible
  • Decisions

• I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Day
  • Same
  • Soup

• I don't know if I'm a method actor.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Know
  • Actor
  • Method

• We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play the chord sheets. We were very focused on what we had in mind for these productions.

  

  Lamont Dozier
  • Mind
  • Band
  • Sound

• Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Child
  • Wind
  • Ocean

• My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

  

  Ed Case
  • Religious
  • Marriage
  • Spiritual

• I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Experience
  • Always

• You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Confidence

• Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Man
  • Present

• There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Life
  • Why
  • Job

• I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate work. One frame in one direction or another can make such a difference and it is, in that, like brain surgery.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Brain

• The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Purpose
  • Tree
  • Spring

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation.

  

  Donna Karan
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Practice

• Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• I do believe that almost everything I do is based on my feelings, not on my intellect. Though But we won't chase ourselves up the particular sentiment, or we'll get lost.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Believe
  • Feelings
  • Intellect