#th

You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against. ↗

— Hayden Fry

#beliefs #coming #control #know #must

I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more. ↗

— Hayden Fry

#games #here #home #i #look

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game. ↗

— Hayden Fry

#game #learn #life #like #must

We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches. ↗

— Hayden Fry

#itches #other #scratch #take #team

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#am #freedom #i #i am #language

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#experienced #i #i think #passion #reasonable

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#birth #book #elephant #get #give

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 bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#appear #been #bipolar #describe #ends

They both laughed and drank to each other; they had never tasted sweeter liquor in all their lives. And in that moment they fell so deeply in love that their hearts would never be divided. So the destiny of Tristram and Isolde was ordained. ↗

— Thomas Malory

#love #sir-thomas-malory #the-death-of-king-arthur #tristan-and-isolde #tristram-and-isolde

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#awful #awful thing #blackness #complete #despair