Tom Stoppard Quotes

It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.

Tom Stoppard

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• I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Bed
  • Truck
  • Farm

• Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Never

• The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Blue

• The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • You
  • English
  • Say

• Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Community
  • Action
  • Principle

• Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Religious
  • Evolution

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Free
  • Responsibility

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• «Sometimes the best decision is to make no decision, which is also to make a decision.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • Decision

• A culture is made - or destroyed - by its articulate voices.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Culture

• When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Job
  • American
  • Political

• If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • World
  • Country
  • Trying

• I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.

  

  Carol Anshaw
  • People
  • Pretty

• All I ever wanted to do was play football. I was never one for revising, and I only left school with three O Levels.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • School
  • Football

• We are a trading nation, and we are trading with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.

  

  Mark Rutte

• A busy schedule can be difficult, but I have the best husband on the planet. He supports my endeavors, and we work as a team.

  

  Jane Leeves
  • Work
  • Team
  • Husband

• A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Wife
  • Wine

• When I see a friend play Hamlet or see an inspirational performance, I absolutely get excited by the idea of changing things up.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • Up
  • Friend
  • inspirational

• The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• That's one of the things I'm most proud of is the character of the guys on this roster. They're anxious to step up and play for their country.

  

  Buck Martinez
  • Character
  • Guys
  • Roster

• Ten years after NAFTA, Mexico's leading export to America is still — Mexicans. America is becoming Mexamerica.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • America

• It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.

  

  Tom Stoppard