Stephen Fry Quotes

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

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• The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • American
  • Strong

• There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Fiction

• I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Sick
  • Opera
  • Soap

• When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Great
  • City

• When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Question
  • Cast

• If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • You
  • Mistake
  • Enjoy

• The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Education
  • Health
  • Service

• If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Truth
  • True
  • Religion

• I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.

  

  Maluma
  • Lyrics
  • Filled
  • Margins

• All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation … Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.

  

  Bernard Baruch
  • World
  • Work
  • Hope

• I love boats. Anything that runs, anything mechanical. It's my God-given passion in life.

  

  Dennis Washington
  • Life
  • God
  • Passion

• It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Fun

• 'Reign' - and this might sound cheesy, but it's a dream I had. I dreamt everything that happened in that song, woke up, and wrote the song.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • Up
  • Song
  • Dream

• I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

  

  Clara Ann Fowler
  • Singing

• There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.

  

  Jasmine Guy

• I like to imagine that the Neanderthals were all really good artists.

  

  Jim Drain
  • Good

• Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.

  

  Christine Lahti

• Everyone who watches Adult Swim knows there's a sound to it, a feeling that's nostalgic sometimes, but then it's also different and outside the box.

  

  Jay IDK
  • Different
  • Feeling

• When a locked-room mystery doesn't work, the solution makes you groan, and the book gets hurled across the room.

  

  Adrian McKinty
  • Work
  • Book

• Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

  

  Kitty Kelley
  • Age

• I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Book
  • Birth
  • Pregnant