Tom Stoppard Quotes

Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.

Tom Stoppard

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• Death
• Might
• Negative
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• I try to get in people's heads. My job is to get the ball, so if I'm talking trash to an O-lineman or quarterback or receiver, and they start thinking about me, that's good, because they aren't thinking about the game anymore.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Guy

• I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Guilty

• I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Saying

• After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Me
  • Positive
  • Motivated

• Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Family
  • Death

• A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Women

• I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Language

• We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Paradise

• Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Death
  • Man
  • Idea

• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Death
  • Dad
  • Car

• As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.

  

  Wael Ghonim
  • Country
  • Death
  • Know

• It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Great
  • Death
  • Earth

• Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

  

  Larry David
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Scene

• Death and the dice level all distinctions.

  

  Samuel Foote
  • Death
  • Level
  • Dice

• First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Death
  • First
  • Crime

• Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Book

• I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

  

  David Starkey
  • Thinking
  • Reading
  • Needs

• If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life in less and less disguise as I grew older, and finally with no disguise - except the disguise we create for ourselves, which is self-deception.

  

  William Maxwell
  • People
  • Writing
  • Deception

• I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Think

• My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

  

  Andreas Gursky
  • World
  • Desire

• Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Might