Stephen Fry Quotes

We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the adoration of daft singers, thicko footballers and air-headed screen actors than into the veneration of dogmatic zealots, fanatical preachers, militant politicians and rabid cultural commentators.

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• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Positive

• I grew up with all kinds of people.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • People
  • Up
  • Kinds

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Team
  • Going
  • Tough

• We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Red
  • Storm
  • Weapons

• I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Way
  • Inside

• If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Care
  • Search

• I hate morning workout; I'm a night person more. But it's good to work out in the mornings because then you can have all day free.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Good
  • Work
  • Night

• Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Party

• Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

  

  Margot Fonteyn
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• She had married a vulgar man; and, though she had not become like the man, she had become vulgar.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • She

• We only got clothing once a year, like, right before school began. It's like, that's when you got your clothing.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • School

• The Clean Air Act of 1970 was designed to control air pollution on a national level by authorizing the development of comprehensive regulations to limit emissions.

  

  Christine Todd Whitman
  • Control
  • Air

• I want the world to be better because I was here.

  

  Will Smith
  • World

• I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Life
  • Drawing
  • Paris

• Here's the thing: I think the media underestimates the intelligence of the moviegoer. We need to be fulfilled. People want to sit down and think, and I try to make people think.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • People

• I am not the one who has to try to beat me.

  

  Ashton Eaton

• The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Lifetime
  • Punk

• A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.

  

  Frank Grillo
  • Hero

• I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Art
  • Hero
  • Movement

• Danger is a normal part of life, and the brain is in charge of detecting it and organizing our.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Brain
  • Danger
  • Detecting

• We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the adoration of daft singers, thicko footballers and air-headed screen actors than into the veneration of dogmatic zealots, fanatical preachers, militant politicians and rabid cultural commentators.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Hero
  • Politician
  • Adoration