Stephen Fry Quotes

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

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• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Job
  • Perfect

• 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

• Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Long
  • Rest

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

  

  Isaac Asimov

• We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.

  

  Maria Edgeworth
  • Men
  • Real
  • May

• 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
  • Dream
  • Song

• Black lives do matter, and our lives do hold value.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Black
  • Value

• What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.'

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Cancer
  • Start
  • New

• I work in the house next to where I live. We bought a smaller house that I use as my office and the place where my two employees work... We've got tens of thousands of letters from kids stored all over the house in places you would usually put dishes and other things like that.

  

  Jeff Kinney
  • Work
  • Live
  • Kids

• Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.

  

  Tertullian
  • Soul
  • Christ
  • Birth

• We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • People
  • Thought
  • Years

• 'He will do what we tell him.'

  

  Peter Akinola

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

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Book
  • Birth
  • Pregnant