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 Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.
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 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 are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
Tom Stoppard
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Tom Stoppard
What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
Tom Stoppard
You talked animatedly for some time about language being the aniseed trail that draws the hounds of heaven when the metaphysical fox has gone to earth; he must have thought you were barmy.
Tom Stoppard
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Type:
Dramatist
Date of Birth:
1937-07-03
Year of Death:
Nationality:
English |
