Stephen Fry Quotes

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

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• September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Life
  • History
  • Day

• On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Change
  • Tried

• Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Party
  • Too Much

• I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Work
  • Down
  • Test

• I always wanted pink hair.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Always
  • Hair
  • Pink

• As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Long
  • Government
  • Internet

• I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Writing
  • Reader

• Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Like
  • Humor

• You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Heart
  • Movie
  • Want

• I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Think
  • Me
  • Light

• I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Help

• Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Good
  • Professional
  • Gracious

• You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Moment

• Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Family
  • Why

• Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Limits
  • Riches
  • Principal

• Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.

  

  Sallust
  • Yourself
  • Possible
  • Talk

• The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Best
  • Quiet
  • Diet

• With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Sensitive

• I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Me
  • Like
  • Years

• We have a sufficient political class, and the military doesn't have to get involved in high national office. The days of doing that, post-Civil War and post-World War II, are gone.

  

  Jack Keane
  • World
  • War
  • High

• Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Sometimes
  • Odd