Stephen Fry Quotes

Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.

Stephen Fry

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• I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Want
  • Down
  • Mental Illness

• I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Irish

• It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.

  

  Wale
  • Cool
  • Internet
  • Insult

• Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Think
  • Space
  • Matter

• I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Lose

• I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'

  

  Nate Parker
  • Movies
  • Now
  • Message

• Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Fashion

• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it on the side of the track for four minutes, it would be perfect.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Today

• Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Past
  • Alone
  • Present

• As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • War
  • Popular
  • Wicked

• Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Important
  • Long
  • Book

• Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Trying
  • Fashion
  • Decision

• I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Music
  • Children
  • Art

• The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Technology
  • Humanity

• Voters have demonstrated time and again that candidates who buck the teachers' union are rewarded.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Teachers
  • Rewarded

• The girls show up wearing nothing. I can’t lie, I’m 16, I don’t hate it. I don’t have a girlfriend.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Girlfriend

• I wish I could rap! I wish I could rap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that... Twista. He's super fast.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Wish
  • Rap

• How precise you need to be when you're in a comedy, and the honesty you need and to have those two things meet up and have the execution just right, I always found very difficult.

  

  Chris Messina
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Honesty

• I don't think that would be entirely unfair. There are some things which get on one's nerves and some things that don't. And I'm, to use a rather journalistic word, allergic to the things that are typically American. I think that's fairly natural to someone who has just been described as a Tory and is always ready to describe himself as a High Tory.

  

  Enoch Powell
  • American
  • High

• It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Long
  • Die
  • Eyes

• I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them in their natural habitat, and it's not always pretty.

  

  Neil Cross
  • Pretty

• Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • English

• Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Believe
  • Atheism