Stephen Fry Quotes

I knew I couldn't believe in God, because I was fundamentally Hellenic in my outlook.

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• When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • You
  • Media
  • Lazy

• I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Horrible
  • Chords

• If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Know
  • Question
  • Questions

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Heart
  • Man

• The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.

  

  Earl Butz
  • You
  • Difference
  • Worked

• I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Up
  • Cinema
  • Watching

• My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Music
  • Hope

• If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Credit
  • Month
  • Credit Card

• People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Truth
  • Looks

• The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Society
  • Judge
  • View

• Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Believe
  • Morning
  • Lion

• She was very kind to us when Joe and I went through the darkest days of the leak of my name in 2003. And, of course, Joe worked in the Clinton White House.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • She
  • House
  • Kind

• How tell what remains ? But it’s the end. Or have I been dreaming, am I dreaming? No no, none of that, for dream is nothing, a joke, and significant what is worse.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Dream

• Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461

  

  Oswald Spengler

• You're pulling 4-5G for a lot of the corners around the lap. We build up lactic acid because there are a lot of vibrations in the car, and you have to have strong legs to hit the brake pedal. We need to be fit to do every lap at 100%.

  

  Jenson Button
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Car

• Where you go, I go, What you see, I see, I know I'd never be me without the security, Are your loving arms keeping me from harm Put your hands in my hand & we'll stand.

  

  Adele
  • Song
  • Hand
  • Hands

• The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The tree rustled again. Their senses were sharpened, and they seemed to apprehend life. Life passed. The tree rustled again.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Music
  • Song

• So when I look at spending more dollars, I look at the fact, do I really want my kids and your kids and everybody else's kids in this country to have to pay that bill?

  

  Kristi Noem
  • Country
  • Kids

• I believe that the destructive nature of society that now threatens the existence of the entire human world has much to do with human intelligence. The way to overcome all human suffering-that also is through human intelligence.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Believe
  • Nature

• I knew I couldn't believe in God, because I was fundamentally Hellenic in my outlook.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Believe