Stephen Fry Quotes

A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.

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• So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • World
  • She
  • Think

• Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Education
  • Training
  • Roots

• Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Doubt
  • Gold
  • Holiday

• In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Life
  • Art
  • Guy

• It's good to know people think I'm a nice guy.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • People
  • Good
  • Guy

• 'In Prague, big red posters were put up on which one could read that seven Czechs had been shot today. I said to myself, 'If I had to put up a poster for every seven Poles shot, the forests of Poland would not be sufficient to manufacture the paper.'

  

  Hans Frank
  • Up
  • Today
  • Red

• Never demand of another that which would constitute his sacrifice to you. Never grant that which would constitute your sacrifice to him.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Sacrifice

• Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton

• Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • World
  • Vision

• The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned.

  

  Fred F. Fielding
  • People
  • Today
  • Political

• I adore Madrid. It's my city. If I ever move, it will only be for work. Whenever I travel, I always want to get back home.

  

  Maria Valverde
  • Work
  • Home
  • City

• I don't like to use the words 'real women,' honestly. I like to use the word 'woman.' And I say that because there are so many women out there who are naturally thin or are naturally curvy, and I think when we start putting a label on the type of woman, it gets misconstrued and starts to offend people.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • People
  • Women
  • Real

• The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.

  

  Angelo Scola
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Death

• I like who I am.

  

  Robert James Ritchi

• It's not palm trees and neon signs in Florida; it's strip malls, highways, hot sun beating down on you.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Sun

• For me, the natural world is always telling big stories about humongous scales of time. And I often feel simultaneously terrified and humbled by those scales and in awe, and delighted that I get to be here; that I'm lucky enough, that we are lucky enough to get experience these things for the tiny finger snap of time that we get to be on Earth.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Time
  • World
  • Experience

• There are so many emotions when I step on the ice.

  

  Adam Rippon

• I love to run and I have some tips to keep it fresh and novel. I rarely use the same route twice. That keeps things new.

  

  Dean Karnazes

• I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

  

  Anna Friel
  • Life
  • Character
  • Judge

• I loved her audition/work session. Her emotions were so close to the surface,

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Work
  • Audition
  • Session

• We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement - that's the kindest word I can give you - of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war. The price is very, very heavy and I regret it enormously. I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history.

  

  John McCain
  • War
  • History
  • Regret

• Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

  

  John Wooden
  • God
  • Humble
  • Be Careful

• It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Universe
  • Violence
  • Existence

• A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Regret
  • Foul
  • Clinic