Tom Stoppard Quotes

Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king." "Yes." "Unorthodox.

Tom Stoppard

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• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • World
  • Live
  • Write

• In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Courage
  • Leadership
  • South

• I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Doubt
  • Find

• The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Money
  • Walking
  • More

• I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Work
  • Women
  • Strong

• People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • People
  • More
  • Realize

• I don't get hung up on weight.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Get
  • Weight

• I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.

  

  Tana French
  • Religious
  • Need
  • Belief

• My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Pretty
  • Dad
  • Sometimes

• I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • God
  • True

• In my opinion, nothing changes after you get married. If ain't broke, don't fix it.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Opinion
  • Changes
  • Fix

• To tell you the truth, I was turning into a little spoiled brat after 'Rocky V.'

  

  Sage Stallone
  • Truth
  • You
  • Rocky

• Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Music
  • Very
  • Preparation

• One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Movie
  • Earth
  • Day

• Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • American
  • Opinion

• When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty

• When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

  

  Ouida
  • Life
  • Time
  • Friends

• I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.

  

  Chris Evert
  • Age
  • Cool

• I didn't need to be speaker because I needed a fancy title or a big office. I wanted to be speaker so I could lead an effort to deal with the serious issues that are facing our country.

  

  John Boehner
  • Country
  • Serious
  • Effort

• An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Education
  • Teach
  • Assimilate

• Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Lying
  • Horse
  • Faces

• Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king." "Yes." "Unorthodox.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Age
  • Father
  • Son