We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the adoration of daft singers, thicko footballers and air-headed screen actors than into the veneration of dogmatic zealots, fanatical preachers, militant politicians and rabid cultural commentators.


Stephen Fry

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR
I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR
Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
ELVIS PRESLEY
He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly...
RICK RIORDAN
Did someone just call me the wine dude?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas...
RICK RIORDAN
I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta."
Leo snorted. "What's a wine...
RICK RIORDAN
The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS
At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w...
RICK RIORDAN
In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persu...
ROBERT H. JACKSON
We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL
A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth...
MARTIN LUTHER
He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain
JOHN RAY
No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder pe...
JONATHAN SWIFT
To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers
GEORGE WHITEFIELD
Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon...
JOHN E. HINES
Only the sinner has a right to preach
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but '...
BILLY GRAHAM
If a person listens routinely to the sermon but doesn’t show the commensurate good change in own d...
ANUJ SOMANY
In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Yay!” Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug—even Octavian, who didn't look t...
RICK RIORDAN
Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!”
She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te labe...
RICK RIORDAN
If not for the horses, Piper would've died.
RICK RIORDAN
Pluto's pauldrons,” Reyna cursed.
RICK RIORDAN
And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY
I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Percy was getting tired of water.
If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po...
RICK RIORDAN
We immerse ourselves in escapist mass entertainment, such as 'reality T.V.' programs. We sup...
BRENDAN MYERS
What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!”
Percy had no intention of doing that.
RICK RIORDAN
The impulse of the play is to alert us, in the face of increasing religious and political polarizati...
ELIZABETH BRADLEY
The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never...
RICK RIORDAN
Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the uni...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand
BOB DYLAN
Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, live to fight an...
BOB MARLEY
Singing is such an excellent thing, that I wish all people would sing
RICHARD BYRD
When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ...
MONSERRAT CABALLé
Sing, Sing a song, Sing out loud, Sing out strong, Sing of good things, not bad, Sing of happy, not ...
JOE RAPOSO
Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too famili...
BILLY JOEL
I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs.... because they...
TORI AMOS
I couldn't stand Janis Joplin's voice... she was just a screaming little loudmouthed chick.
ARTHUR LEE
Like We Never Loved At All.
FAITH HILL
This Kiss.
FAITH HILL
I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
MARIA CALLAS
I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I ...
BRITNEY SPEARS
The Oprah Winfrey Show.
FAITH HILL
There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But ...
GREG BEHRENDT
Gods of Olympus.” Piper stared at Leo. “What happened to you?”
His hair was grease...
RICK RIORDAN
Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!”
“Tempting,” ...
RICK RIORDAN
Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost.
LAINI TAYLOR
We still should have enough time to reach Rome.”
Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav...
RICK RIORDAN
This is Buford,” Leo announced.
“You name your furniture?” Frank asked.
RICK RIORDAN
Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. “You do have a plan?”
Percy wanted to step ...
RICK RIORDAN
Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means ...
RICK RIORDAN
I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered.
The taxi driver grinned in...
RICK RIORDAN
Anything man can make, man can destroy.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT
I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu...
JAMES C. DOBSON
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
OSCAR WILDE
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG
Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
JOHN GIELGUD
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being...
OSCAR WILDE
You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it ...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters
SENECA
Once you've been really "bad" in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop
JACK NICHOLSON
My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Ac...
TIFFANI AMBER THIESSEN
There are no small parts. Only small actors.
MILAN KUNDERA
You were very good playing a bitch-heroine, but you shouldn't win an award for playing yourself.
JACK L. WARNER
An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it...
HELEN HAYES
I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.
BRIGITTE BARDOT
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
MILAN KUNDERA
I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's n...
JULIA ROBERTS
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
ETHEL BARRYMORE
I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
BETTE MIDLER
I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.
EWAN MCGREGOR
I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of t...
ORSON WELLES
Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while your preachers too often speak of thing...
THOMAS BETTERTON
Originally, I Was A Happy Drunk…
EWAN MCGREGOR
Nicole - Knickers, as I call her. I would swear, burp and fart in front of her. I'd try and embarras...
EWAN MCGREGOR
Why am I here? You guys are so fantastic.
KATE REID
For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration ha...
DUSTIN HOFFMAN
Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�...
CHERYL R COWTAN
Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU
God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c...
JOHN PIPER
Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor...
CARRIE RYAN
Anger - a beast within us that needs taming.
SARU SINGHAL
I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I
This is Annabeth,” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.
RICK RIORDAN
The meeting was like a war council with donuts. Then again, back at Camp Half-Blood they used to hav...
RICK RIORDAN
[Iris] squeezed his hand. "Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope.
RICK RIORDAN
Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.
RICK RIORDAN
Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels.
RICK RIORDAN
Piper wondered if Olympian gods ever blasted their kids with lightning for being evil, or grounded t...
RICK RIORDAN
Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
STEPHEN FRY
Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” RICK RIORDAN If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die.
FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN
The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Aphros nodded, a glint of pride in his eyes. “We have trained all the famous mer-heroes! Name a fa...
RICK RIORDAN
Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

More Stephen Fry

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner...
STEPHEN FRY
Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
STEPHEN FRY
But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one ...
STEPHEN FRY
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRY
There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the num...
STEPHEN FRY
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ...
STEPHEN FRY
Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
STEPHEN FRY
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame ...
STEPHEN FRY
I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the m...
STEPHEN FRY
You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the sa...
STEPHEN FRY
Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty pur...
STEPHEN FRY
There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will l...
STEPHEN FRY
I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren'...
STEPHEN FRY
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and ...
STEPHEN FRY
The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that ...
STEPHEN FRY
I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and t...
STEPHEN FRY
It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certai...
STEPHEN FRY
Compromise is a stalling between two fools.
STEPHEN FRY
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
STEPHEN FRY
I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting...
STEPHEN FRY
You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an e...
STEPHEN FRY
Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is s...
STEPHEN FRY
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in com...
STEPHEN FRY
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down ...
STEPHEN FRY
Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go ...
STEPHEN FRY
Mental health is one of the last great taboos.
STEPHEN FRY
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all ...
STEPHEN FRY
My parents were marvelously educated people.
STEPHEN FRY
You are who you are when nobody's watching.
STEPHEN FRY
If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a st...
STEPHEN FRY
I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary...
STEPHEN FRY
I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it w...
STEPHEN FRY
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
STEPHEN FRY
As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound...
STEPHEN FRY
They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we...
STEPHEN FRY
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symp...
STEPHEN FRY
I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be o...
STEPHEN FRY
If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll ...
STEPHEN FRY
I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing r...
STEPHEN FRY
It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an emai...
STEPHEN FRY
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue
STEPHEN FRY
Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jon...
STEPHEN FRY
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
STEPHEN FRY
Jo Wood was sound, sound as a bell. Solid, cynical, amused and occasionally amusing, he did not appe...
STEPHEN FRY
I shall sustain a massive erection, that’s what, and I shan’t be answerable for the consequences...
STEPHEN FRY
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to expe...
STEPHEN FRY
I could rent a room, paint it black, bolt on a few chains and call it my punishment room, Then have ...
STEPHEN FRY
I was lucky enough to meet him a few times and to work with him once. I felt as if I had been allowe...
STEPHEN FRY
I don't think the bitterest enemy of the Perrier Award could deny that it has spotted some real tale...
STEPHEN FRY
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
STEPHEN FRY
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least doe...
STEPHEN FRY
If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so...
STEPHEN FRY
I think animal testing is cruel. They get nervous and get all the answers wrong.
STEPHEN FRY
When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
STEPHEN FRY
It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. I...
STEPHEN FRY
Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are...
STEPHEN FRY
He knew he could never jingle change in his pocket or park his car like a confident adult, he was th...
STEPHEN FRY
He was one of a long line of mimsy and embittered middle-class sensitives who disguised their feeble...
STEPHEN FRY
He's your enemy, Donald!'
'He most certainly is not,' said Trefusis. 'Not unless I say so. He m...
STEPHEN FRY
I've always believed it right for young people to drink. Not to be alcoholic of course, that is a pa...
STEPHEN FRY
He knew he could never jingle change in his pocket or park his car like a confident adult, he was th...
STEPHEN FRY
The object of love should feel honoured or flattered, responsible in some way. Instead he felt insul...
STEPHEN FRY
Other people's tears were more than Adrian could cope with. Did you put an arm round them? Did you p...
STEPHEN FRY
The English language is an arsenal of weapons; if you are going to brandish them without checking to...
STEPHEN FRY
As Adrian hurried past the Senate House he noticed two old men standing outside Bowes and Bowes. He ...
STEPHEN FRY
We have also an edition of The Trial, by the notorious Jew, Kafka. Berlin would appreciate it, I am ...
STEPHEN FRY
It is perfectly possible to live a life from cradle to grave that is entirely dishonest.One might ne...
STEPHEN FRY
I think it was Harry Walpole who remarked, "In this life one should try everything once except inces...
STEPHEN FRY
Once, in his first term, Cartwright had been bold enough to ask him why he was clever, what exercise...
STEPHEN FRY
Either a municipal bog is a private place or it isn't. If it is a private place in which to shit, ho...
STEPHEN FRY
All gone. All anger quelled, all desire drained, all thirst slaked, all madness past.
STEPHEN FRY
There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.
STEPHEN FRY
He was always doing that these days. Everything he saw became a symbol of his own existence, from a ...
STEPHEN FRY
He had quickly happened upon the truth which many lonely contemporaries would never discover, the tr...
STEPHEN FRY
That's alright," said Hugo. "I've got some wine"

Which was about all he seemed to have. H...
STEPHEN FRY
Lies, fictions and untrue suppositions can create new human truths which build technology, art, lang...
STEPHEN FRY
But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as t...
STEPHEN FRY
Little girls grow up to be women, little boys grow up to be little boys.
STEPHEN FRY
Books are not holy relics,' Trefusis had said. 'Words may be my religion, but when it comes to worsh...
STEPHEN FRY
I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look f...
STEPHEN FRY
Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishma...
STEPHEN FRY
Not one word of the following is true
STEPHEN FRY
It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked b...
STEPHEN FRY
My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a ...
STEPHEN FRY
Better sexy and racy
Than sexist and racist
STEPHEN FRY
Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befri...
STEPHEN FRY
I used to think it utterly normal that I suffered from “suicidal ideation” on an almost daily ba...
STEPHEN FRY
We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
STEPHEN FRY
There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphr...
STEPHEN FRY
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that ...
STEPHEN FRY
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, v...
STEPHEN FRY
It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of t...
STEPHEN FRY
I’m not even tone deaf, that’s the arse-mothering, fuck-nosed, bugger-sucking wank of the thing....
STEPHEN FRY
Life, that can shower you with so much slendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
STEPHEN FRY
We keep our insignificant blemishes so that we can blame them for our larger defects.
STEPHEN FRY
Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, t...
STEPHEN FRY
The trouble with doing a thing for cosmetic reasons is that one always ends up with a cosmetic resul...
STEPHEN FRY
Come to think of it I don't know that love has a point, which is what makes it so glorious. Sex has ...
STEPHEN FRY
I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as...
STEPHEN FRY
There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into wh...
STEPHEN FRY
Music is everything and nothing. It is useless and no limit can be set on its use. Music takes me to...
STEPHEN FRY
Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
STEPHEN FRY
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
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily t...
STEPHEN FRY
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
STEPHEN 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
Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guar...
STEPHEN FRY
The class erupted into noisy laughter and, since I was always, and have always been, determined that...
STEPHEN FRY
How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?
STEPHEN FRY
My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I...
STEPHEN FRY
The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Inc...
STEPHEN FRY
When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
STEPHEN FRY
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive
STEPHEN FRY
Stephen Fry on being gay: "My first words, as I was being born... I looked up at my mother and said,...
STEPHEN FRY
Today it was commerce that Europe valued and it was the businessmen who, having exploited what the s...
STEPHEN FRY
It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now, th...
STEPHEN FRY
The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Phil...
STEPHEN FRY
We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does thing...
STEPHEN FRY
If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the w...
STEPHEN FRY
The short answer to that is 'no.' The long answer is 'fuck no.
STEPHEN FRY
Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.
STEPHEN FRY
I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
STEPHEN FRY
Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it...
STEPHEN FRY
lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you w...
STEPHEN FRY
You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in lov...
STEPHEN FRY
Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
STEPHEN FRY
For some reason the word “chronic” often has to be explained. It does not mean severe, though ma...
STEPHEN FRY
Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.
STEPHEN FRY
I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not...
STEPHEN FRY
It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a priv...
STEPHEN FRY
Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.
STEPHEN FRY
Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.
STEPHEN FRY
I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
STEPHEN FRY
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
STEPHEN FRY
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
STEPHEN FRY
Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
STEPHEN FRY
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
STEPHEN FRY
Between funny and witty
Falls the shadow
STEPHEN FRY
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
ELIZABETH FRY
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
CHRISTOPHER FRY
This is another vicious atrocity with terrorist impact. The device has similarities to the device th...
ALAN FRY
This is another vicious atrocity with terrorist impact, ... The device has similarities to the devic...
ALAN FRY
This is a completely reckless terrorist attack,
ALAN FRY
clearly the sort of weapon we believe was used in this attack is known to be in the hands of certain...
ALAN FRY
An examination of the exterior of the building would show some form of small missile hit the buildin...
ALAN FRY
The task of police was made much more difficult if not impossible by the failure to give a precise l...
ALAN FRY
This was a calculated, evil act by people who were seeking to maim and kill. We are extremely fortun...
ALAN FRY
I am afraid there are two dead.
ALAN FRY
I am linking the crimes. We are treating this as a racist offense.
ALAN FRY
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. The desire and ability to press on has and a...
JEFFREY FRY
Many people see themselves as a rose, when all they are is just a prick.
JEFFREY FRY
If you like a person at their worst, you will love them at their best.
JEFFREY FRY
I sometimes think
His critical judgement is so exquisite
It leaves us nothing to admire except...
CHRISTOPHER FRY
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word....
CHRISTOPHER FRY
The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into...
CHRISTOPHER FRY
Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
CHRISTOPHER FRY
The human heart can go to the lengths of God.
Dark and cold we may be, but this
Is no winter...
CHRISTOPHER FRY
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
CHRISTOPHER FRY
The encouragement of industry and frugality among the poor, by visits at their own inhabitations; th...
ELIZABETH FRY
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled tog...
HAYDEN FRY
Wisdom comes when you realize the pain, people, or problems life used to produce you now push you.
JEFFREY FRY
Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to ...
JEFFREY FRY
Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he cover...
MARTIN FRY
One thing I can give and still keep is my word.
JEFFREY FRY
Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Tr...
JEFFREY FRY
Entrepreneurship does not build character; it reveals character.
JEFFREY FRY
Shine brightly, so you can help those who have not found their path a way through the darkness.
JEFFREY FRY
Art is significant deformity.
ROGER FRY
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback...
CHRISTOPHER FRY
I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.
MARTIN FRY
The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.
JEFFREY FRY
Trust is tough since it involves that quixotic mix of integrity, vulnerability, and intimacy. But tr...
JEFFREY FRY
Between
Our birth and death we may touch understanding
As a moth brushes a window with its win...
CHRISTOPHER FRY
Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian
ROGER FRY
I want to try and wear as many Australian designers as I can because I'd like to support my Aust...
LUCY FRY
I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train m...
HAYDEN FRY
When it's football season, I'm all football.
HAYDEN FRY
Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone
ELIZABETH FRY
I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been de...
ELIZABETH FRY
It's all to make people aware of violence and safety in the evenings, and the different things that ...
ELIZABETH FRY
When your back is against the wall, you will find it is a good place to push off.
JEFFREY FRY
He looked like a midget standing next to it.
KEVIN FRY
Eight of the teams believe one interpretation and Ferrari have a slightly different interpretation.
NICK FRY
'Take Back the Night' isn't just about domestic violence, 'Take Back the Night' is also about being ...
ELIZABETH FRY