Stephen Fry Quotes

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

Stephen Fry

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The animal encounter poem is now so distinct a genre that it would be possible to create a full-length anthology from deer encounter poems alone, and many varieties of experience would emerge from such an exercise.

John Burnside

AloneExperienceAnimalExerciseNow

I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met.

Robert Silverberg

ScienceFamousI CanHandNeverMet

A woman needs to be put together more than a man. If she isn't, she looks like she's not up for the job. There's a different standard. Those are the rules, and I have to live by them.

Jeanine Pirro

LiveTogetherJobWomanManRules

You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.

Steve Chabot

MoneyYouBeastImportantWashington

Parents who obsess about every detail of child-rearing and orchestrate their children's 'resumes' may run themselves ragged while their own personal identities and adult relationships wither for lack of care.

Stephanie Coontz

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Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.

Marvin Sapp

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To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

Dennis Potter

LoveToo MuchObscureSeeTo Love

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

Anthony Horowitz

FearBookBetterGreatestThanEach

I think people have a hard time dealing with a bunch of things at once. They can't have something be disturbing and funny at the same time. They can't have that kind of combination. Which is weird to me because I feel complicated about most things.

Perfume Genius

FunnyTimePeopleMeThinkWeird

If you're hired to be a funny person, you have to trust your judgment but also be open because sometimes you think something's funny, and the next day you read it and go, 'Oh, my God.'

Paula Pell

FunnyGodTrustDayThinkYou

The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were based on the supposition that sufficient study and experimentation would elucidate not only the origins of disease, but its treatment as well.

Sherwin B. Nuland

MedicalEarlyNewStudyDisease

Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long.

Timothy Morton

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