Stephen Fry Quotes

I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.

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• Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Life
  • Children
  • May

• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  

  O. Henry
  • New
  • New York
  • Old

• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Right
  • Directors

• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Pleasure

• Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Music
  • Mother

• My memories of events and games are fragmented.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Memories
  • Games
  • Events

• They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Women
  • War
  • Democrats

• It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Satisfied

• The European vision is the United Nations' vision.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Vision
  • United Nations

• It doesn't matter if you've been working hard on something for six months. If you realize a track is wack, you have to throw it away. A lot of people can't do that.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Matter
  • Working Hard

• I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Routine

• Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

  

  Christo
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I don't believe I've ever met a homosexual.

  

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
  • Believe

• One thing's for sure, in the war between freedom and fear, our side is going to have better t-shirts.

  

  Dave Winer
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• Our brains have the ability to reorganize themselves by forming new neural connections throughout our lives. This ability is called neuroplasticity.

  

  Elizabeth Thornton

• If your appraisal comes back too low - you don't have at least 10% equity for a conforming loan or 20% for a jumbo loan - you might not be able to refinance at all, at least with a loan that's packaged and sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That means you may have to pay a much higher rate.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • May

• If you think about it, I was at college, and then three months later, I was a massive pop star. It's stress-making, especially when you're a bit of an oddball as I was, the black sheep left to your own devices, and then suddenly everyone's interested in you.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • Black
  • College
  • Star

• And so the arbitrary union of three incommensurate, mutually disconnected concepts became the basis of a bewildering theory... by which one of the lowest renderings of art, art for mere pleasure - against which all of the master teachers warned - was idealized as the ultimate in art.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Art

• I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.

  

  Shakira
  • Time
  • Work
  • Experience

• By definition, conservatives struggle with change.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Struggle

• What you consistently speak with emotional intensity, you will experience, you will create, and you will become. The words that you speak with emotional conviction become the life you live - this is your heaven or this is your hell.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Heaven
  • Emotional
  • Speak

• The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Party
  • Angry
  • Election

• I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.

  

  Stephen Fry
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