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Tom Stoppard Quotes
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Type: Dramatist Quotes Category: English Dramatist Quotes Date of Birth: July 3, 1937 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Tom Stoppard Related Authors: William Shakespeare Harold Pinter Christopher Marlowe John Ciardi William Wycherley Douglas William Jerrold Alan Bennett |
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Tom Stoppard A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. Tom Stoppard Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. Tom Stoppard Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. Tom Stoppard Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. Tom Stoppard Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? Tom Stoppard Every exit is an entry somewhere else. Tom Stoppard From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. Tom Stoppard Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. Tom Stoppard Good things, when short, are twice as good. Tom Stoppard I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. Tom Stoppard I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. Tom Stoppard If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. Tom Stoppard If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. Tom Stoppard It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. Tom Stoppard It is better to be quotable than to be honest. Tom Stoppard It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. Tom Stoppard It's better to be quotable than to be honest. Tom Stoppard It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. Tom Stoppard James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. Tom Stoppard Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect. Tom Stoppard Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. Tom Stoppard Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. Tom Stoppard My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. Tom Stoppard My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful. Tom Stoppard Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. Tom Stoppard Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. Tom Stoppard Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. Tom Stoppard The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. Tom Stoppard The days of the digital watch are numbered. Tom Stoppard The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. Tom Stoppard The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. Tom Stoppard We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. Tom Stoppard We're actors. We're the opposite of people. Tom Stoppard |
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