Tom Stoppard Quotes
For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.Tom Stoppard
Quotes to Explore
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
Mallory Ortberg -
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
Jack White The White Stripes -
I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
Gary Shteyngart -
Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Harper Lee -
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
Jackie Chan -
Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
Victoria Billings -
I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
Obie Trice -
My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
Ed Sheeran -
Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
Idris Elba -
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
Lady Gaga
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
Ramakrishna -
I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
Carlene Carter -
I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
Callan McAuliffe -
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Samuel Adams -
The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
Ian Somerhalder -
The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
Edgar Ramirez
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It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now I've conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it.
Aileen Quinn -
In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer.
Amanda Schull -
I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's always been drums first and foremost. I don't reckon on this Jack-of-all-trades thing. I thing that felling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts.
John Henry Bonham Band of Joy -
One of the greatest struggles of becoming an adult is figuring out what you want to do and what makes you happy. The courageous thing is to stick with it and see it through and see if you were correct.
Kristen Stewart -
I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.
Alexander Ludwig -
For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
Tom Stoppard