Tom Stoppard Quotes

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

Tom Stoppard

• Time
• Good
• Men
• Drowning
• Bricks
• Straws

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• No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • Family
  • School

• In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • Know
  • Fashion

• The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Time
  • Dramatic
  • Just Because

• We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • God
  • Spirit

• Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Good
  • War

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Good
  • Know
  • Quiet

• When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Kids

• When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Good
  • Work
  • Love

• I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Time
  • First

• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Adversity
  • Prosperity

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Me

• A film has its own life and takes its own time.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Life
  • Time
  • Film

• When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Night

• The civilization, so often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of moderation, bring great evil upon men. Thus warneth you He Who is the All-Knowing. If carried to excess, civilization will prove as prolific a source of evil as it had been of goodness when kept within the restraints of moderation.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Great
  • Men
  • Evil

• I'd say that, 99 percent of the time at Nevada, I knew what the coverage was and where I was probably going before the ball was snapped. It makes it very easy when I only had to read one person and know that I was going from here to here, and if not, I'm checking it down.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Time

• I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.

  

  Wayne White
  • Practice
  • Artists
  • Rule

• And if I let myself down, appear on stage when I'm not looking my best, it's not fun for me. I just beat myself up about it.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Up
  • Fun

• How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men