Stephen Fry Quotes

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

Stephen Fry

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People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the best art - or falling out of love or being heartbroken - drives all the best books, drives all the best music, and yet we've sort of stopped talking about it.

Joanna Coles

LoveMusicGreatArtBestLove Is

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.

Joan Rivers

LifeFunnyToughBetterLife Is Hard

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

Michael Behe

WorkScienceEvolutionDeadTheory

While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country.

Michael Bennet

EducationProgressThinkDataStatus

Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending.

Steve Scalise

GrowthBudgetLookEconomyThrough

But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.

Robert Fripp

TrainingAttentionMatureHoldAbove

I want to create a collection, almost like a trilogy of sorts. Whereas 'Milk and Honey' was very much like holding a mirror up to yourself, the second book is turning that mirror around and fixing it on the world. The book is a reflection of the times we are in.

Rupi Kaur

MirrorReflectionYourselfWorldUp

Listen, I'm 41 years old. I've got two kids. I've got a career. The last thing I need to be doing is having a beef with A Tribe Called Quest. It's silly and it was unnecessary. It ain't the first time that a director hasn't seen eye to eye with a subject and it ain't going to be the last time.

Michael Rapaport

TimeEyeDoingSillyCareerNeed

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.

Michael Mandelbaum

ValueCityWorldBuildingsMonuments

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Demosthenes

GoodManYouDoneHimLike

Great partnerships thrive because the people need each other.

Courtney A. Kemp

GreatPeoplePartnershipsThrive

I'm a mellow fellow. Nothing much bothers me.

Clarence Clemons

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