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repka


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Posted Fri Feb 12th, 2010 6:08am Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

So, I guess "Matthew Luke, you're boiling arse' deserves mentioning.

I also liked how he described himself in the bio - 'extreme street dancer at Sprout Pictures.'

Yep, it was a buzzy day all right!..

Wisdom is the ability to cope. - Stephen Fry, Harvard 2/22/11

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gjhsu


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Posted Thu Feb 25th, 2010 6:49pm Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

"... to pinch the loaf, as it were, of this idea."


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TobiasMonk


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Posted Mon Mar 1st, 2010 4:31pm Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

That made me too.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
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repka


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Posted Tue Mar 9th, 2010 1:44am Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

A quote from the previous QI I liked: 'Correct pronunciation of Van Gogh … sounds like an outbreak of pneumonia in a frog pond.'

Wisdom is the ability to cope. - Stephen Fry, Harvard 2/22/11

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gjhsu


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Posted Tue Mar 9th, 2010 6:00am Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

"... reasonably extraordinary. Extraordinary enough, I hope, for our purposes. We only call ourselves 'Quite Interesting,' we don't call ourselves 'astonishing'..."


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gjhsu


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Posted Wed Mar 10th, 2010 3:15am Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

"A culture that demands people apologise for something that is not their fault: that is as good a definition of a tyranny as I can think of."


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ad_astra


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Posted Sat Mar 13th, 2010 11:04pm Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

This little gem from the Liar always makes me feel like laughing out loud:
"But a figgy oatcake laughs at constipation and favours rectal carcinoma with a haughty stare."

This just sounds so Wodehousian (well, at least as far as style is concerned, probably less so when it comes to subject matter ).

We are made for love, for generosity, sharing, and compassion, for transcendence. We are made to reach for the stars.
Desmond Tutu

"Go out and be kind."
Stephen Fry

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nongenderous


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Posted Sat Mar 13th, 2010 11:43pm Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

I'm very happy that I'm not a translator of any of Stephen's books. I can't imagine what it is like reading his amazing Stephenisms in another language (well, I'll admit that they'd get lost in translation), esp. my own; we haven't got that many words in the Norwegian language, and it's a quite static language imho (hope this makes sense).

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joan


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Posted Sun Mar 14th, 2010 8:21am Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

Yes, translating wordplay is a nightmare!

Here is a very funny article by an ex-pat aussie writer, Kathy Lette. The whole thing made me laugh, especially the Stephenism at the end (which is probavly untranslatable).
Enjoy:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/crme.....5839161667


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ad_astra


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Posted Thu Mar 25th, 2010 9:51pm Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

From Saturday Night Fry: "Put on your listening gloves, I beg of you..."

I use that myself from time to time

We are made for love, for generosity, sharing, and compassion, for transcendence. We are made to reach for the stars.
Desmond Tutu

"Go out and be kind."
Stephen Fry

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repka


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Posted Mon May 3rd, 2010 2:40pm Post subject: Stephenisms and Quotes

From the recent tweet (ah, isn't it nice to get Stephen's tweets again?): ...the traffic between Heathrow and London is twelve types of absolute arse pig.

Wisdom is the ability to cope. - Stephen Fry, Harvard 2/22/11

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