Tom Stoppard Quotes

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Tom Stoppard

Health, Attitude, Others

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard

Age, Maturity, High

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Tom Stoppard

Become, Older, Childhood

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
Tom Stoppard

Government, Democracy, Voting

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
Tom Stoppard

Life, Waiting, Whole

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
Tom Stoppard

Change, Aim, Journalism

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.
Tom Stoppard

Trying, Why, Working

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
Tom Stoppard

Maturity, High, Growing

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.
Tom Stoppard

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.
Tom Stoppard

Sometimes, Vaguely

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
Tom Stoppard

Someone, Movie, Crush

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard

Else, Somewhere, Exit

I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.
Tom Stoppard

Life, Person, Consider

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard

Age, Maturity, High

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Tom Stoppard

Person, Shoulder, Gravitate

Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Tom Stoppard

Good, Short, Twice

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

Life, Enjoy, Enough

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
Tom Stoppard

Life, Terrible, Odds

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

Art, Useful, Modern

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

Beauty, May, Joy

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Tom Stoppard

Give, Advice, Bucket

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
Tom Stoppard

End, Mean, Thought

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Tom Stoppard

Truth, Facts, Principles

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
Tom Stoppard

Music, Rock, Consider

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
Tom Stoppard

Writing, Small, Getting

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 3, 1937

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