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

  

  Campbell Scott
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• 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
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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
  • Father
  • Age

• 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

• If you stay by the book, it's not always going to work. You've got to venture off a little bit. But you can't get too reckless, either.

  

  Matt Cain
  • Work
  • Book

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

  

  David Gest

• Everybody has a story... and a scream.

  

  Rachel Roberts
  • Story
  • Everybody
  • Scream

• Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it-even of my own music-with the same nuances forever.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Great
  • Music
  • Important

• I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.

  

  Mark McGwire
  • History
  • Hope

• We're professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there's some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that's a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.

  

  Bobby Orr
  • People
  • Believe
  • 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