Shannen > Shannen's Quotes

“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

“Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

“Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for. ”
― Banksy

“The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water.

Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side.

It's not surprising a lot of people have given up compeating altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk and shout abuse.

What the human race needs is a lot more streakers.”
― Banksy, Cut It Out

“All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

“I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me. ”
― Banksy

“Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

“I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said, 'That's clever. It's an anagram of art,' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

“Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― Banksy

“As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.”
― Banksy

“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”
― Banksy

“Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

“The short answer to that is 'no.' The long answer is 'fuck no.”
― Stephen Fry

“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
― Stephen Fry

“It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.”
― Stephen Fry

“Sometimes there just isn't enough vomit in the world.”
― Stephen Fry

“Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.”
― Stephen Fry

“I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

“Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?”
― Stephen Fry, Making History

“I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it.”
― Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

“People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

“there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.”
― Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

“I have Van Gogh's ear for music”
― Stephen Fry

“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.”
― Stephen Fry, Making History

“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.”
― Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

“Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.”
― Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus