Stephen Fry Quotes

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

Stephen Fry

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• You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.

  

  Ira Sachs
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  • Think
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• She's been on more laps than a napkin.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • She
  • More
  • Been

• I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Good
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• If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.

  

  Pat Sajak
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• I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.

  

  Bassem Youssef
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• In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Country
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• Most geniuses are weird.

  

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  • Most
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• The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Past
  • Action
  • Comforting

• To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Different
  • Man
  • Kiss

• To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Friend

• I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Never
  • Media
  • Propaganda

• I think it is the ability to tackle difficult problems in a sort of stable and supportive environment. I think that is the real key to it.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Real
  • Environment

• At the end of the day, we all know what the Jordan logo means, and you can't take anything away from that. But it's pretty cool to have my own logo on a Jordan shoe.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Pretty
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• I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.

  

  Lorraine Bracco
  • Life
  • Chinese
  • Stock

• Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low.

  

  Emilio Azcarraga Jean
  • Business
  • Soccer

• Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.

  

  Adrienne Clarkson
  • Society

• Blend is great for designers because it implements a lot of sophisticated behaviours, but for what I like to do, hand coding XAML is preferable, particularly because I have to publish it.

  

  Charles Petzold
  • Great
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• If I was producing something, it wouldn't make sense to me to cast somebody because of who their father is because that doesn't put anyone in the seats in the theatre. I wouldn't go to a movie because that person's father is so and so.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Movie
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  • Theatre

• If it can be dreamed, it can be done.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Done
  • Dreamed
  • Can Be

• The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
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• Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!

  

  William Shatner
  • Knows

• We actually believe in hope. But hope requires purpose. And purpose requires direction.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Purpose

• The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the more intensive the despair. This is everywhere apparent, most clearly in despair at its maximum and minimum. The devil's despair is the most intensive despair, for the devil is sheer spirit and hence unqualified consciousness and transparency; there is no obscurity in the devil that could serve as a mitigating excuse. Therefore, his despair is the most absolute defiance. . . .

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Evil
  • Consciousness
  • Despair

• When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Purpose
  • Impossible
  • Despair