Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.


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Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
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Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their...
STEPHEN FRY
I'm not even tone deaf, that's the arse-mothering, fuck-nosed, bugger-sucking wank of the thing.
STEPHEN FRY
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually ...
STEPHEN FRY
Well I don’t know about you, but when I recall childhood pain, I don’t recall the pains of tooth...
STEPHEN FRY
None of this is important in itself, but I feel somewhere that it has a lot to do with why I have al...
STEPHEN FRY
As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement an...
STEPHEN FRY
Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that ...
STEPHEN FRY
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me.
STEPHEN FRY
I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less ...
STEPHEN FRY
Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.
STEPHEN FRY
I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the hear...
STEPHEN FRY
And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again.

The sky was never the same colou...
STEPHEN FRY
People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t
STEPHEN FRY
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, a...
STEPHEN FRY
Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the wor...
STEPHEN FRY
I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He i...
STEPHEN FRY
Hell is not a place you go for your sins. It is where you are when you are not sharing the gifts you...
JEFFREY FRY
What after all Is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean
CHRISTOPHER FRY
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily t...
STEPHEN FRY
What after all Is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean
CHRISTOPHER FRY
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
CHRISTOPHER FRY
When I talked with an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got h...
HAYDEN FRY
Always fornicate / Between clean sheets and spit on a well-scrubbed floor.
CHRISTOPHER FRY
The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into...
CHRISTOPHER FRY
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
STEPHEN FRY
When I first saw this place, in its bones, it reminded me of Augusta National, what with its (clubho...
DAVID FRY
I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.
CHRISTOPHER FRY
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing
CHRISTOPHER FRY
I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which...
STEPHEN FRY
I played in the chapel on Sundays, then moved on to polishing corridors.
STEPHEN FRY
The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can
CHRISTOPHER FRY
Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
JEFFREY FRY
I will never be normal. Normal is just another word for average.
JEFFREY FRY
Often doors of opportunity are opened, but few opt to walk through them.
JEFFREY FRY
What a poor life I have had if I am only remembered for the amount of money I made.
JEFFREY FRY
Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guar...
STEPHEN FRY