Tom Stoppard Quotes
I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
Tom Stoppard
Quotes to Explore
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
Ban Ki-moon
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Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
Gail Sheehy
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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
Gail Devers
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
Abel Ferrara
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
Bat for Lashes
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
Sam Walton
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
Natasha Trethewey
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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
Margaret Fuller
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Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.
Ba Jin
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In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.
Charles Duhigg
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Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.
Ray Bradbury
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I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
Tom Stoppard
