Tom Stoppard Quotes (46 quotations)
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1. A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. - Tom Stoppard
2. A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. - Tom Stoppard
3. Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. - Tom Stoppard
4. All your life you live so close to truth it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it's like being ambushed by a grotesque. - Tom Stoppard
5. 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
6. Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything...death is not...It's the absence of presence, nothing more...the endless time of never coming back...a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound... - Tom Stoppard
7. Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? - Tom Stoppard
8. Every exit is an entrance somewhere else. - Tom Stoppard
9. Every exit is an entry somewhere else. - Tom Stoppard
10. Every exit is an entry somewhere. - Tom Stoppard
11. From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. - Tom Stoppard
12. Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. - Tom Stoppard
13. Good things, when short, are twice as good. - Tom Stoppard
14. I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it. - Tom Stoppard
15. I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. - Tom Stoppard
16. I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. - Tom Stoppard
17. If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. - Tom Stoppard
18. 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
19. 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
20. If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. - Tom Stoppard
21. It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. - Tom Stoppard
22. It is better to be quotable than to be honest. - Tom Stoppard
23. 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
24. It's better to be quotable than to be honest. - Tom Stoppard
25. It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. - Tom Stoppard
2. A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. - Tom Stoppard
3. Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. - Tom Stoppard
4. All your life you live so close to truth it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it's like being ambushed by a grotesque. - Tom Stoppard
5. 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
6. Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything...death is not...It's the absence of presence, nothing more...the endless time of never coming back...a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound... - Tom Stoppard
7. Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? - Tom Stoppard
8. Every exit is an entrance somewhere else. - Tom Stoppard
9. Every exit is an entry somewhere else. - Tom Stoppard
10. Every exit is an entry somewhere. - Tom Stoppard
11. From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. - Tom Stoppard
12. Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. - Tom Stoppard
13. Good things, when short, are twice as good. - Tom Stoppard
14. I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it. - Tom Stoppard
15. I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. - Tom Stoppard
16. I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. - Tom Stoppard
17. If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. - Tom Stoppard
18. 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
19. 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
20. If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. - Tom Stoppard
21. It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. - Tom Stoppard
22. It is better to be quotable than to be honest. - Tom Stoppard
23. 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
24. It's better to be quotable than to be honest. - Tom Stoppard
25. It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. - Tom Stoppard
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