Stephen Fry Quotes

Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching it. So perhaps, metonymically, the aeroplane is Australia after all.

Stephen Fry

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• I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Remember
  • Black

• Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Work
  • Men
  • You

• I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Morning

• I'm a country girl. The more big cities I go to, the more fashionistas and designers I meet who want to dress me, the more I have all these kind of superficial but amazing experiences, the more I just realize that I'm from Gloucestershire.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Country
  • Girl
  • Amazing

• I have a phobia of spoons I haven't used one in about 10 years.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Used
  • Spoons
  • Phobia

• Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Life
  • Doubt
  • Special

• It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Women
  • Television
  • Judgment

• It's surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • World
  • Surprising
  • Extent

• Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart" "It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability that counts." "Let God's promises shine on your problems." "Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Heart
  • Fear

• I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

  

  F. Paul Wilson
  • Music

• We in Russia have always considered Russians and Ukrainians to be one people. I still think so.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Stills

• Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Step
  • Birth
  • Grave

• I think that everything you do, everything that you start and everything that you end, it does that for a reason, and it's to move forward on to the next thing or the next road or the next path or whatever.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Start
  • Move
  • Next Road

• I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Question
  • Go
  • Meeting

• National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Fear
  • Confidence
  • Body

• Most teachers we work with are intrigued to learn that abused and neglected students are likely to interpret any deviation from routine as danger and that their extreme reactions usually are expressions of traumatic stress.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Learn
  • Danger
  • Teachers

• But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Now
  • Agreement
  • Australia

• Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching it. So perhaps, metonymically, the aeroplane is Australia after all.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Australia
  • Reaching
  • Practicals