Tom Stoppard Quotes
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
Tom Stoppard
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
Barbara Fialho
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. Forbes
I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
Mal Peet
And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
Eddie Campbell
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann
A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
Walter Kirn
By definition, risk exposes businesses to danger.
Adena Friedman
Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you’ll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.
Brian K. Vaughan
I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.
Colin Wilson
An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.
W. H. Auden
A time for every occupation under heaven. A time for giving birth, a time for dying; a time for planting, a time for uprooting what has been planted; a time for tears, a time for laughter; a time for mourning, a time for dancing; a time for searching, a time for losing; a time for loving, a time for hating.
Ben Sherwood
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
Tom Stoppard
