Stephen Fry Quotes

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.

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• My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Soul
  • Dark
  • Hard

• There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Fiction

• I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry!

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Winning
  • Rivalry

• It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Water
  • Decision

• I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

  

  John Chamberlain
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Materials

• The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Beautiful
  • Law
  • Color

• We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Months
  • Mother’s Day

• The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Strong
  • Problem
  • Enemy

• Half of the people in the world are below average.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Average

• Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Peril

• Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Business

• The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Believe
  • Fall
  • Military

• In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Faith
  • Miracles
  • Realist

• Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Imagination
  • Profound
  • Deserted

• I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift the premise of what goes for pictures on a wall. I wanted my work to say something other than the usual- the usual format for an artwork being a rectangle, a square, or anything flat, framed, and attached or hooked on the wall. That was accepted practice, mainline thinking.

  

  Nancy Spero
  • Practice
  • Accepted
  • Radical

• There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Ways
  • Weather
  • VIolin

• I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Good
  • Money
  • Art

• I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Grows
  • Cambridge