Stephen Fry Quotes

People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.

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• I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • You
  • Proud
  • Woman

• Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Price
  • Treasure

• It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • You
  • Celebrity
  • Really

• I know what poverty is.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Know
  • Poverty

• I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Think
  • Taken
  • Will

• I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Career
  • Learning
  • Beginning

• Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • Best
  • Force
  • Insecurity

• I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Understand
  • Tea
  • Anger

• Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Earth
  • Sun
  • Teach

• I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • God
  • Think
  • Body

• I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • World
  • Hide
  • Hats

• I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Teacher

• 'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

  

  Jack Cade
  • Men
  • May
  • True

• Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • She
  • Know
  • Woman

• Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • Writing

• In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine alternative to Google-style browsing, a more coherently organized selection of links, and a more advertiser-friendly environment through which to sell space and links.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Space
  • Style
  • Environment

• Statistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are going to be on.

  

  Patrisse Cullors

• When I was a child, Sunday afternoons felt like they could last a week or a month. Increasingly, as I get older, time is going so, so fast.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Time
  • Sunday

• Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.

  

  T. H. White
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Fear

• Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • World
  • Play
  • Difficult

• Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.

  

  Susan Wiggs
  • Writing
  • Struggle
  • Genre

• Somebody told me I should try writing. Actually, a lot of people tried to get me to try writing, long before I thought I was 'the writing type'.

  

  Karen Walton
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Darwinism