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Great Quotes by Stephen Fry
- One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life…
- It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as…
- Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
- I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up…
- But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of…
- It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that…
- Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong