Tom Stoppard Quotes

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Tom Stoppard

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• Painting
• Wall
• Modern
• Walks
• Sculpture

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• My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Experience
  • Theater
  • Cinema

• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Think
  • Like
  • Young

• As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Person

• When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Fairness
  • Wage
  • Minimum Wage

• I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Work
  • Jazz
  • Ballet

• What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Mom

• Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Country
  • Community

• Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • People
  • Time
  • Innovation

• I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Country
  • Mom

• As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Success

• I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Life
  • Good
  • Goal

• Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Love
  • History

• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Taste

• I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Business
  • Death

• I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Time
  • Think
  • Change

• When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.

  

  Avicii
  • Music
  • House
  • Listening

• I was embarrassed by it and racked by middle-class guilt. But when you're on stage, if you're trying to be something you're not, it becomes so much harder. It's better to be honest and take every vulnerability and flaw you have, and mock them and deal with them.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Trying
  • Vulnerability

• I think I've succeeded more by learning what needed to be done next and getting help in getting it done. I was just very focused and impatient.

  

  John Kendrew
  • Done
  • Help
  • Learning

• The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God

• It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Wall