Tom Stoppard Quotes
He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
-
The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
-
Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
-
We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
-
The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
-
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.
-
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
-
If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
-
I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
-
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
-
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
-
I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
-
Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
-
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
-
There is inspiration all around us.
-
We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
-
I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
-
I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
-
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
-
Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.
-
Home is where you can be yourself.
-
He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.
