Stephen Fry Quotes

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

Stephen Fry

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• When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Important
  • She
  • Man

• Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • World
  • Good
  • Game

• They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Great
  • You
  • Couple

• Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Bad
  • Government
  • Rest

• The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Long
  • Humanity
  • Survival

• I miss baseball.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Baseball
  • Miss

• Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants. You have to listen to him when he's telling you what he wants, because a lot of times they're telling you, but you're not listening.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Men
  • Different
  • Man

• You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Feel
  • Injuries

• I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Me
  • Finding
  • Not Knowing

• I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Three
  • Train
  • Nervous

• I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • People
  • Think
  • Said

• Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Turn

• I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Money
  • Pride
  • Stars

• Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Love Is
  • Jealous

• I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Men
  • She
  • Day

• I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • Beautiful
  • Mean
  • Feel

• Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Name
  • Blood
  • Differences

• For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Good
  • Important
  • Game

• I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, 'I'm going to mop the floor with your face.' I said, 'You'll be sorry.' He said, 'Oh, yeah? Why?' I said, 'Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well.'

  

  Emo Philips
  • Time
  • Why
  • Guy

• The city is not just a collection of ramparts with houses, but also a a spiritual power. ... It is capable of directing and changing a man's spiritual life. It brings its power to bear in him and changes his life.

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • Life
  • Power
  • City

• Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Character
  • History
  • Reason

• You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Life
  • Dance

• B3 could cure schizophrenia. You would think.

  

  Abram Hoffer
  • Cure
  • Schizophrenia

• To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Reason
  • Spiritual
  • Spirit