613 Quotes by Stephen Fry

Unlike musical notation, paint or clay, language is inside every one of us. For free. We are all proficient at it. We already have the palette, the paints and the instruments. We don’t have to go and buy any reserved materials. Poetry is made of the same stuff you are reading now, the same stuff you use to order pizza over the phone, the same stuff you yell at your parents and children, whisper in your lover’s ear and shove into an e-mail, text or birthday card. It is common to us all.

El futuro prometedor es como una piedra preciosa, hipnotiza pero, luego de un tiempo, su peso podría hundirte.

I really do believe that there are those who would like and trust me better if they saw me weeping into a whisky, making a fool of myself, getting aggressive, maudlin and drunkenly out of control. I have never found those states in others anything other than tiring, awkward, embarrassing and fantastically dull, but I am quite sure that people would cherish a view of me in that condition at least once in a while.

[In South Carolina listening to Gullah-speakers sing spiritials] As with bluegrass in Tennessee I am reminded once more of the extraordinary power that comes from music that is played in the place where it was born.

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.

The trouble with doing a thing for cosmetic reasons is that one always ends up with a cosmetic result, and cosmetic results, as we know from inspecting rich American women, are ludicrous, embarrassing, and horrific.

I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies.Music is still okay, because music is sound track. Ten, fifteen years ago, every arts student wanted to be a novelist or a playwright. I’d be amazed if you could find a single one now with such a dead-end ambition. They all want to make movies. Not write movies. You don’t write movies. You make movies.

Narsizmi belki de en iyi şekilde, başka insanlar bizim sevgi ve hayranlık dolu görüntümüzü yansıtırken onları bizi tatmin eden ayna yüzeyler olarak görme ihtiyacı olarak tanımlanabilir. Yani başka birinin gözlerine baktığımızda "onların" kim olduğunu görmek için değil, "onların gözlerinde" bizim nasıl göründüğümüzü görmek için bakıyoruz. Bu tanıma göre, kim içimizdeki Narsizm parçasını dürüstçe reddedebilir?

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.