Stephen Fry Quotes

I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look forward to. Zilch, zero, zip-all, sweet lipperty-pipperty nothing. The only thought that will give me the energy to carry on is that someone has a life which would be diminished by my departure from it.

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• I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Kid
  • Just
  • Rotten

• Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • War
  • Always
  • Human

• I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.

  

  Yael Stone
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Think
  • Moral
  • Animals

• As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Decision

• Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • People
  • Trying
  • Home

• Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Human
  • Chaos

• There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Self

• I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Three
  • Take

• Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Rise
  • Mental Illness

• Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Sometimes
  • Teacher
  • Advice

• As NFL players, we have such a platform to spread the Word of God. And that is an area I don't mind speaking out on at all. As far as talking about my football skills, however, I will let my abilities and actions speak for themselves.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • God
  • Mind
  • Football

• To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Live
  • Wisdom

• Thug: You're gonna give us $10,000, or we're gonna break both your legs.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Thug

• Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Beautiful
  • Fire

• I'm a healthy eater. In the morning, I'll have hot water and lemon, then scrambled eggs. I eat spelt or rye bread, not wheat, and have lots of veg and salad.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Water
  • Morning

• For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because it can quite genuinely make you just glad to be alive.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • People
  • Music
  • Connection

• Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.

  

  Dick Thornburgh
  • People
  • Truth

• Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.

  

  Alfred Day Hershey
  • God
  • Truth
  • Justice

• With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Character
  • American
  • Freedom

• One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.

  

  John Gardner
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Devil

• I've been going on Twitter every week going, 'Guys, you have to watch '2 Broke Girls' because it's incredible.

  

  Chad Michael Murray

• When I did a year-long study in 2005 of European countries integrating Muslims into their cultures, France came in the lowest of the rank. Sweden was not far behind, though, which is worrying, as racism in France is much closer to the bone.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Long
  • Study
  • Racism

• I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look forward to. Zilch, zero, zip-all, sweet lipperty-pipperty nothing. The only thought that will give me the energy to carry on is that someone has a life which would be diminished by my departure from it.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Energy