Stephen Fry Quotes

I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.

Stephen Fry

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• I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Teacher
  • Down
  • Scared

• Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Family
  • Job
  • Together

• I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Never
  • Dying
  • Pasta

• The presumption that an extant mode is efficient if the expected net gain is negative can nevertheless be rebutted by showing that the obstacles to implementing an otherwise superior feasible alternative are 'unfair.'

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Negative
  • Obstacles
  • Unfair

• Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Cancer

• I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • School
  • Dream

• They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Like
  • Vintage
  • Dressing

• Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Things

• Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Audience
  • Talent
  • Luck

• Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • World
  • Man
  • Like

• I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Music
  • She
  • Kids

• Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Great
  • College
  • Depression

• In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Talk

• I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Best
  • Like
  • Alive

• The principle of inorganic equality was for them crucial. Men of the stamp of Jahn and Arndt had no notion that it was Equality that had first sounded the cry of 'Vive la nation' in the September massacres of 1792.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Men
  • Equality
  • September

• Secular culture, with the aid of psychoanalysis, has continued the old Christian habit of observing the self only to criticize it.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Culture
  • Christian
  • Habit

• Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Learning
  • Wisdom

• I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • Unexpected
  • Chemist
  • Metamorphosis

• At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that?

  

  Matt Gonzalez
  • Up
  • Good

• I know being with me is not easy. But I want you to understand no one has me, or has ever had me, except you.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Easy
  • Being

• if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Spite

• I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Sometimes

• I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder
  • Fooled