Stephen Fry Quotes

If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.

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• Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Own
  • Over
  • His

• We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.

  

  Irene Joliot-Curie
  • Positive
  • Possible
  • Negative

• There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Time
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  • Role

• You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movie
  • You
  • Matter

• Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Great
  • Success
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• It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Country
  • Done
  • Today

• First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Happy

• I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Family

• He who frames the question wins the debate.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Question
  • Debate
  • Frames

• In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about three or four years old, I said I wanted to race, but I was too young; then, when I reached the age of seven, my father gave me a kart and we started from there.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Home
  • Age
  • Father

• I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Pleasure

• This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.

  

  Gary Hart
  • You
  • Leave
  • San Francisco

• I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Me
  • Pizza
  • Bread

• The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

  

  Ashley Montagu
  • Family

• I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Long
  • Fire
  • Clouds

• Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Real

• I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

  

  David Gest

• I've often thought that Obama should come out in favor of oxygen, just to see how many right-wingers keel over from holding their breath for too long.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • Long

• I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Former Senator Al D'Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent.

  

  Bernie Sanders

• Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Literature
  • Mediocrity
  • Remarkable

• The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could be summed up, I think, in two words - realistic idealism.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Words
  • Vision

• I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Believe
  • May
  • Help

• If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Religious
  • Dare
  • Freak