I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all. Stephen Fry More Quotes by Stephen Fry More Quotes From Stephen Fry Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness. Stephen Fry sicknesslaughterthinking Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life itself, they even do it with movies these days. Stephen Fry vivisectionheartlessstudy There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes. Stephen Fry clotheslanguage I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it. Stephen Fry styleviewsthinking What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spends all of its time being a tree-frog. We spend all our time trying to be somebody else. Stephen Fry frogstreetrying There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know. Stephen Fry extremesmooddoubt The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws. Stephen Fry ironchurchblessing Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street. Stephen Fry wallchildrenknowledge As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family. Stephen Fry upsetchildrenthinking How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say? Stephen Fry heardknowledgethinking It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast flow from one's lips like scurf from the hair of a bank manager. Stephen Fry radioflowhair It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art matters. Happiness matters. Love matters. Good matters. Evil matters. Slam the fridge door. They are the only things that matter and they are of course precisely the things that science goes out of its way to ignore. Stephen Fry evildoorsart There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world. Stephen Fry tvswindowworld Having a great intellect is no path to being happy. Stephen Fry intellectpathbeing-happy It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously. Stephen Fry laughterhumorfunny A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books. Stephen Fry judgedbook I don't believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods. Stephen Fry believe-in-goddont-believebelieve Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not. Stephen Fry knowndoneknowing You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film. Stephen Fry sevensixfilm I think faith in each other is much harder than faith in God... Stephen Fry harderfaith-in-godthinking
