Stephen Fry Quotes

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

Stephen Fry

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• Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Travel
  • Exercise
  • Shoes

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Humanity
  • Human

• In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Problem
  • Suffering

• If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Single

• I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Change
  • Voice
  • Before

• I started this book to forgive my parents and ended it by becoming a parent. Understanding backward liberated me to live forward.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Live
  • Book
  • Parents

• Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be 'damned if you do, and damned if you don't.'

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Heart

• I'm for prayer in schools.

  

  Charles Evers
  • Prayer

• I love, love, love, love, love, love Naeem Khan. Every dress he makes looks like it belongs in a museum. You put it on, and you feel like royalty.

  

  Ellie Kemper

• I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Men
  • Jealousy

• I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Country
  • Family
  • Friends

• The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.

  

  Bruno Latour
  • Work
  • Society
  • Science

• What I find interesting about Captain Action is that he is more an adventurer and spy than he is a soldier.

  

  Chris Roberson
  • Interesting
  • Action
  • Soldier

• I like a girl with a good personality that I can have fun with. If I am taking you out on a date, let's eat burgers and cheese fries.

  

  Lucky Blue Smith
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Girl

• I can tell you that I can always recognize a Boston song, even if it's in a noisy place. I can hear that it's Boston even before I know what song it is. If a Boston song comes on in a club or somewhere, I notice that it's Boston, and the second thing I notice is what song it is.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Song

• I'm a mental-health advocate big time, so I think it's great when depression is a thing that's discussed out in the open, because it's still way too stigmatized.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Health

• I had breast cancer. I caught it early.

  

  Allison Anders
  • Cancer

• If I were going to prom again, I would wear a huge skirt and plain cotton tank. A big, poofy, flotation-device-sized skirt. I wish I had done that.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Done
  • Wish
  • Prom

• Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.

  

  Kathleen McDonald
  • Imagine
  • Natural
  • Empty

• As Attorney General of Alabama, I have never hesitated to stand up to the EPA before when it was wrong.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Up

• Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

  

  Don Knotts
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Happy

• I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own. A twelve is very different from a thirteen, for example. Twelve is upright, conscientious, intelligent, whereas thirteen is a loner, a shady character who won't think twice about breaking the law to get what he wants. Eleven is tough, an outdoorsman who likes tramping through woods and scaling mountains; ten is rather simpleminded, a bland figure who always does what he's told; nine is deep and mystical, a Buddha of contemplation.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Personality

• I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Thinking
  • Style
  • Spirit