Stephen Fry Quotes

Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".

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• So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Art
  • America
  • High

• Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Responsibility
  • Lies
  • Ability

• I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Party
  • Myself
  • Leadership

• If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Men
  • Women
  • Equality

• I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Guy
  • Player
  • Horse

• I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.

  

  Halsey
  • Me
  • Running
  • City

• Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Me
  • Solutions
  • Sentences

• I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Practice
  • Poetry
  • Feel

• The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Society

• Without some common baseline of facts, without a willingness to admit new information, and concede that your opponent might be making a fair point, and that science and reason matter - then we're going to keep talking past each other, and we'll make common ground and compromise impossible.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Science
  • Past

• Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Community

• There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • May

• The moral precept to adopt...is: Judge, and be prepared to be judged.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Moral
  • Judge

• In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Time

• The body should be reconfigured by the clothes, never again the other way round.

  

  Donatella Versace

• A place of freedom is the best place to have the most creativity.

  

  Matt McGorry
  • Freedom
  • Creativity

• My animals are a really important part of my life.

  

  Lisa Scottoline
  • Life
  • Important

• I believe I have quality, and that's why I won a grand slam, so I know I can do it again.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Quality

• The point of the essay is to change things.

  

  Edward Tufte

• Sometimes our forever life does not last as long as we think.

  

  Pam Jenoff
  • Life
  • Think
  • Forever

• No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Pain
  • Silence

• So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Wish

• Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Pain
  • Hell
  • Angelic