Stephen Fry Quotes

How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain?

Stephen Fry

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• Stupid

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• I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Taken
  • Never
  • Interest

• I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Women
  • Home
  • Remember

• When you're rich you don't write checks.

  

  Randy Moss
  • You
  • Write
  • Rich

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.

  

  Victoria Toensing
  • Evidence
  • Perjury
  • Corroborating

• Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Taken
  • Stars
  • Exist

• The Green Hornet was a human superhero. And he didn't wear a clown costume. And he was a criminal - in the eyes of the law - and in the eyes of the criminal world.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • World
  • Law
  • Eyes

• What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Long

• No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honour, it has no word to keep. … Hitler is himself the nation. That incidentally is why Hitler always has to talk so loud, even in private conversation - because he is speaking with 78 million voices.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Why
  • Fate

• I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

  

  Edward Heath

• The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature

• What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Drama
  • Literature

• As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Effort
  • Patience

• I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow-men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Justice
  • Force

• I think in terms of content and subjects and whatever kind of production it dictates. Can I conceive of an idea that would really connect with my personal rhythms and cost a lot of money? I don't gravitate in that direction, but it is possible.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Money

• I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Happy

• Other than the obvious, like Cher and Diana Ross, I actually find a lot of inspiration from time periods. So it's not necessarily people, it's the essence of the time period, whether it be the '90s or the '70s or the '40s. The specific time and what vibe it gave you, what the emotion of that time was, and trying to get that emotion again.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Time
  • Period

• It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.

  

  Archibald Alexander
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Children
  • Issues
  • Agree

• There's more to the sport than just fighting, and you either understand that, or you don't. And if you don't, then I promise you the guys that are worth money don't want to fight you, because you don't get it.

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • Money
  • Fighting
  • Promise

• I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.

  

  Drummond Money-Coutts
  • People

• How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain?

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Stupid