Stephen Fry Quotes
I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me.
Stephen Fry
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
Nargis Fakhri
Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.
Umberto Eco
It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.
Ian Anderson
I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.
Rachel Roy
Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
Karl Pilkington
The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.
Raf Simons
The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.
E. Y. Harburg
I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.
Fergus Henderson
When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.
Lady Gregory
'I think, George,' says Merion, ' the trouble is that you don't have a conflict model of society.'
Malcolm Bradbury
Now, bitter, but useful, mortification is the steppingstone to knowledge, even in a child.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Looking fifty is great-if you're sixty.
Joan Rivers
The development of exponential technologies like new biotech and AI hint at a larger trend - one in which humanity can shift from a world of constraints to one in which we think with a long-term purpose where sustainable food production, housing, and fresh water is available for all.
Arvind Gupta
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
Oscar Wilde
I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.
Martina McBride
Actually, social drug-taking went kind of low-key for a couple of years. Probably because of AIDS, people got very conscious of their health. But it seems to be making a comeback. Just the other night I was at a party where people kept disappearing into the bathroom every few minutes. I'm glad I did all that in my 20s and that I'm done with it. And that I wrote about it in Postcards from the Edge.
Carrie Fisher
I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me.
Stephen Fry
