Stephen Fry Quotes

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

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• But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Character
  • Problem
  • Gambling

• The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Back
  • Bottle

• TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Control
  • Trump
  • News

• We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good
  • Joy
  • Forever

• I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Years

• Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Free

• If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Nature
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• I'm certain about my decision to divorce you. Stop hoping.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Stop
  • Decision
  • Divorce

• The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Progress

• We are not rich in the bank, but we have always prospered and we have quite enough. I never walk out with my husband but I hear the people bless him. I never lie down at night, but I know that in the course of that day he has alleviated pain and soothed some fellow creature in the time of need. Is not this to be rich?

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Time
  • Night

• Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Simple
  • Risk
  • Design

• I want to safeguard the value of lunch. For me, it is sacred. My family and I always have lunch and dinner together. And we always sit down. Food does not taste the same if you are standing up!

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• I don't do husbands. I don't do children.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Children

• I play games on-set at work. Sometimes I can't remember people's names, so I start throwing out clues. Like if I can't think of George Clooney, I'll say, 'You know, drop-dead gorgeous, was on a big TV show... ' Until someone says his name, I can't finish my story!

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • People
  • Work
  • Remember

• My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there's no pressure.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Life
  • Music
  • Purpose

• I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came along, it was kind of serious, but it's all context as well.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• I feel like people have a lot of the same good times and the same interests pretty much anywhere.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People
  • Good
  • Pretty

• On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Great
  • Night
  • Lost

• I've made more mistakes than anyone I know. Sometimes I learned something, and sometimes I just find myself doing it again. It makes me mad when I wasn't smart enough to learn the first time. You just think it's going to be different the next time, and it's not, as it turns out.

  

  Jim Pattison
  • Time
  • Different
  • Smart

• Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Know
  • Author

• Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Mad
  • Agents