Stephen Fry Quotes

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

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• I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Deal
  • Threats
  • Ultimatums

• My daughter passed away in 2003.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Daughter
  • Away
  • Passed

• What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Me
  • Die

• My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Money
  • Love

• It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Live
  • Home

• The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Important
  • Relationship

• Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Life
  • Death
  • Progress

• If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Work
  • Money
  • Want

• Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Political
  • Media

• No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Good
  • News

• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Want
  • Success
  • Happiness

• I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Time
  • Morning

• Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Pain
  • Baby
  • Tired

• Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Good
  • Sweet
  • Grow

• All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Together
  • Design

• The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Hero

• You have to raise your game, you have to be ready to compete, and you've just got to give Hakeem credit. He was great. He really was great.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Great
  • Game

• I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Job

• Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

  

  Chuck D
  • People

• Clothes that are too tight make you look bigger. If you've been trying to shed pounds, and it doesn't go, buy the next size up. I never care what size my clothes are.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Up
  • Trying

• I'm in East L.A., like Mount Washington, Highland Park. There's a little strip that they're gentrifying, trying to make a hip spot, but you go there, and it's just kind of barren. Nobody hangs out anywhere in L.A. There's no loitering in L.A., so I don't know what to do with myself.

  

  King Tuff
  • Trying

• Writers will happen in the best of families.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Happens

• My mom wasn't so much such a great cook. But I don't know, I think I have a very strong mother, and it's funny, because both of my sisters - I have two sisters, and I'm the baby, but they all work hard. I'm not sure where I get it from, and I'm not sure where they get it from, but they must get it from somewhere... I like to work.

  

  April Bloomfield
  • Work
  • Great
  • Mother

• An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Funny
  • Library
  • Originality