Tom Stoppard Quotes

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

Tom Stoppard

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• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Best

• I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • People
  • Time
  • Busy

• I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Better
  • Outside
  • Outsider

• I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Moral
  • Religion
  • Catholic

• The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Heart
  • Head
  • Worked

• I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Myself
  • Always
  • See

• I'm just someone who marvels at God.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Just
  • Someone

• New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • New
  • Behavior
  • Passive

• I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • Man
  • Black

• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Death

• He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.

  

  Pat Cash
  • Time
  • Athlete
  • Just

• I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Play

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Ideas

• I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Listening
  • Sister
  • Grateful

• As far as actors who pop up again and again in Japanese dubs, and because they're really good actors, people like Steve Bloom, not only in 'Cowboy Bebop,' but also he's sort of the de-facto Wolverine. If you're doing an animated Wolverine anything, Marvel usually just goes to Steve first because he's recognized as that voice.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Greatness
  • Mediocrity
  • Imitation

• Lindsey Graham is now the seventh Republican running for president. If you're keeping score, that's basically one Republican candidate for every two Republican voters.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Running
  • President
  • Candidate

• The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Music
  • Education
  • Obsessed

• Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Knowledge
  • Learning
  • Philosophy

• We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Wisdom
  • Blood
  • Wishes

• A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Men
  • Education
  • Learning