Stephen Fry Quotes

All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.

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• Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Yourself

• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Doing

• I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Remember
  • Summer
  • Bravery

• I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • People
  • Want
  • Down

• I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Music
  • Something
  • More

• I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Sense
  • Personally

• In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Best
  • Practice
  • Teacher

• There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous.

  

  Vanna White
  • People
  • Know
  • Nervous

• I think it's absolutely about time that we have as many female leads as male. It's a very exciting time to be an actress.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Think
  • Actress

• One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Hope
  • Curiosity

• The medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it 'depression' than calling it 'loneliness.'

  

  Patch Adams
  • Depression

• The people considered the most in need of protection were women and children. The sex considered most disposable was men – or males....

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• We want a faithful Catholic businessman not to have to provide a service he finds unethical.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Service
  • Catholic

• There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading 'The Times' editorial pages and the 'Daily Mail' sports pages.

  

  Lionel Barber
  • House
  • Reading
  • Sports

• Frank Sinatra was a great singer, but my favourite is Sammy Davis Jr. He had incredible versatility in his voice, often doing impressions of people. It's always going to be classic, and you'll never get bored listening.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • People
  • Great
  • Listening

• It's great to see women standing up in their own line of work and fighting for fair value.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable.

  

  Mathieu Kassovitz
  • People
  • Good
  • Respect

• Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.

  

  James Lasdun
  • Up
  • Work
  • Holiday

• The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Heart

• The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Single

• When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Heart
  • Mother

• There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do.

  

  Kim Basinger
  • Mother
  • Doubt

• The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Animal

• All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Mother
  • Lord
  • Dear