Stephen Fry Quotes

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

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• Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Language
  • Existence
  • Human being

• One sin, I know, another doth provoke. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Sin
  • Murder
  • Lust

• I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Economy

• In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

  

  Aaron Rose
  • Time
  • Light
  • Extraordinary

• Let us defend the home as a place which is second only to the temple in holiness.

  

  Bonnie L. Oscarson
  • Home
  • Defend
  • Holiness

• The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

  

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
  • Business
  • Government
  • Opinion

• The sense of duty pursues us ever.

  

  Joseph Cook
  • Sense
  • Duty
  • Pursues

• Sex is the great equalizer.

  

  Nick Mancuso
  • Sex
  • Equalizer

• The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Health
  • Name
  • Thing

• When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Hearts
  • Praise
  • Builds

• He never once has made any emphasis on his last home game or his last game. It's just been status quo.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Home
  • Game
  • Emphasis

• I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.

  

  William Dampier
  • Rain
  • Fields
  • Pleasant

• Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

  

  Moses
  • Rain
  • Teaching
  • Plant

• We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.

  

  Moon Unit Zappa
  • House
  • Growing
  • Waste

• Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. 'All my fresh springs shall be in thee.'

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Remember
  • Spring

• In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.

  

  Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn
  • Important
  • Age
  • Guy

• Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Showers
  • Splendour