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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• We are proud to be the No. 1 most funded film on Indiegogo... and with a totally new property. In a world filled with sequels and reboots, Lazer Team is a brand-new IP being made possible by the people who want to see it.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • People
  • World
  • Team

• Kudos to people who put themselves forward as the arbiters of taste.

  

  Leon Max
  • People

• The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Sea

• The TLC sound! That's what's so awesome - we have our own sound.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • Awesome

• From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Design
  • Inspiration
  • Perspective

• This view of the infinite, which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!

  

  Georg Cantor
  • History

• When I was eight and a half, my parents moved to a part of Queens where there was a club nearby. We joined, and if you believe in someone up above, I think I was meant to play tennis.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Parents

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

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Believe