Stephen Fry Quotes

When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate.

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• People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Matter
  • Street

• It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Long
  • Government
  • Minimum Wage

• I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

  

  T-Pain
  • Money
  • Think
  • Parents

• I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Strong
  • Feelings
  • Weird

• I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.

  

  Karl Ferdinand Braun
  • Different
  • Fraction
  • Crystal

• I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

  

  Garrett Graff
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Nice
  • Queen
  • Title

• For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Environment
  • Player
  • Consequences

• From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Reading
  • Simple
  • Problem

• Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them than we are of breathing.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • God
  • Nature

• In manliness he will greet my trouble, Should I be bled, I should evidently get better; Truly I saw no one before, who saw not in me Every indisposition, he will cultivate his business.

  

  Taliesin
  • Business

• In brief, she is the partner to what primarily he creates; he is the visitor to what primarily she creates. To me, this wasn’t equality.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • She
  • Equality
  • Partner

• Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

  

  Claude Monet
  • World
  • Painting

• I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

• All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Hope
  • Profound
  • Kiss

• They don’t believe in liberty. They don’t believe in China before the Communists. There is only one simple, clear task: to protect their control, to maintain their governing. Which is such a pity.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Believe
  • Control
  • Simple

• If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth

  

  Saadat Hasan Manto
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Stories

• I have found that she is as kind and caring a person as she is hilarious. Simply put, Amy Poehler is my hero.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • She
  • Person
  • Hero

• The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Nature

• It's easy to get swept up in the trappings of that sort of lifestyle, but I've been doing it for long enough that I know how easy it is to fall victim to that sort of arrogance and cockiness that celebrity culture can bring about, in young men especially.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Up
  • Men
  • Long

• Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

  

  Steven Van Zandt
  • Friendship
  • Bands
  • Rock N Roll

• When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Men
  • Reason
  • Threat