Tom Stoppard Quotes

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

Tom Stoppard

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• If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

  

  Mae West
  • Search
  • Coffee
  • Meaning

• It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Religion

• I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Character

• Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Funny
  • Find
  • Temptation

• I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Never
  • Before
  • Wrote

• I enjoy my life.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • My Life

• Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Good
  • Science
  • Professional

• You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• 'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thankful

• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Live
  • Character

• As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Children
  • Remember

• Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Time
  • Community
  • Period

• Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Violence
  • Ignorant
  • Tool

• If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Eyes
  • Brain
  • Only

• I believe in music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Father
  • Death
  • Memories

• The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Act

• Quick, how do you pick up a cat?" "Buy her a drink.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Cat
  • Drink
  • Picks

• In this era, you must deliberately preserve and cultivate your most valuable connections to people, activities, and whatever else is most important to you. Anyone can cultivate these connections, drawing from them the strength and will a person needs to handle the best and worst of life, but only if you plan to do so and insist on adhering to your plan.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • People
  • Plan
  • Connections

• I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Father
  • Childhood
  • Lifestyle

• The first time I saw 'Private Practice,' I was hooked. The camera work is captivating, the acting is the-best-of-the-best amazing, and each storyline is so interesting and different.

  

  Rachel G. Fox
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith

• Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Chance
  • Childhood
  • Lasts