Stephen Fry Quotes

There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

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• I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Think
  • Player
  • Confidence

• Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Real
  • Genius
  • Simplicity

• I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Good
  • Real
  • Think

• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Forever

• Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Home
  • Car
  • Shoes

• We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Always
  • English
  • Trouble

• If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Character
  • Sweet
  • Walk

• Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I think I drift toward sad love songs.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Sad

• We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Energy
  • Space

• It's helpful to get feedback on your work, and I think you learn a lot from reading other people's work and giving them feedback.

  

  Gail Honeyman
  • People
  • Work
  • Giving

• It's so amazing that you can give somebody like David Fincher 'House of Cards,' and he can do whatever he wants - Netflix doesn't say, 'Oh, you can't do that,' or, 'We need a subplot here about this.' It's pretty neat that it is allowing the creatives to be creative.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Pretty
  • House
  • Amazing

• I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind.

  

  Daniel Sharman
  • Mind

• To me, baseball is as honorable as any other business. It is the most honest pastime in the world. It has to be, or it could not last a season out. Crookedness and baseball do not mix. It has become immeasurably more popular as the years have gone by. It will be greater yet. This year, 1919, is the greatest season of them all.

  

  Charles Comiskey
  • World
  • Business
  • Baseball

• I don't compromise my principles for politics.

  

  Chris Christie

• Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance discontented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Learning
  • Humanity
  • Ignorance

• Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and denned; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Faith
  • Light
  • Christian

• A reading-machine, always wound up and going,He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Up
  • Reading

• What was she like? She loved him, really loved him then, for an instant. this, this was easier.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Loved
  • Instant

• Many people effectively stop carrying out what it's called 'life's a movie.' The majority of people want to be like others, and this drives them to a death in life. It is necessary to find what distinguishes us from others in order to be something. To the extent that we try to be like others, we convert ourselves into zombies.

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • People
  • Life
  • Movie

• We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • School
  • Stop

• I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing about something that doesn't exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or substance or actual content of books.

  

  Emily Gould
  • Style
  • Books
  • Argument

• There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Soul
  • Individual
  • Rooms