Tom Stoppard Quotes

Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.

Tom Stoppard

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• First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Ideas

• What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Love
  • Space
  • Media

• I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Funny

• I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Think
  • Girls
  • Horrible

• If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Money
  • Individual
  • Pay

• But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • Progress
  • Depression
  • Slow

• As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Best
  • Emotional

• I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Want
  • Man
  • Serious

• The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Service
  • Modern
  • Paradigm

• I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Different
  • Character
  • Think

• In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Hard
  • Novel
  • Keep

• I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Hair
  • Choice
  • Days

• I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
  • Think
  • Better

• Being a pop-leaning, female artist, you'd think that I'd have my record company breathing down my neck and trying to control everything I'm doing. Actually, they've just kind of let me take the wheel.

  

  Halsey
  • Trying
  • Control
  • Artist

• Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Walking
  • New York

• The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.

  

  Origen
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Best
  • Confidence
  • Face

• Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Believe

• I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Parents
  • Boxing

• If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

  

  Donald Justice

• Ironically, though our society of affluence brings safety and stability, it doesn't bring psychological health. As wealth goes up, suicide and depression rates tend to go up. I read one study that compared women in North America with women in Nigeria, and the group with the highest rates of depression was urban North American women, which is the wealthiest. Now, there are obviously huge stresses that come with poverty, but the poorer the society, the more collaborative people have to be.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • People
  • Poverty
  • Safety

• Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Suicide
  • Tricks
  • Calendars