Famous Tom Stoppard Quotations

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"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."
by Tom Stoppard
"I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion."
by Tom Stoppard
"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."
by Tom Stoppard
"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity"
by Tom Stoppard
"Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? by"
by Tom Stoppard
"Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end"
by Tom Stoppard
"Every exit is an entry somewhere."
by Tom Stoppard
"For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now"
by Tom Stoppard
"Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift."
by Tom Stoppard
"I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it."
by Tom Stoppard
"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
by Tom Stoppard
"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation."
by Tom Stoppard
"If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice."
by Tom Stoppard
"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."
by Tom Stoppard
"It is better to be quotable than to be honest"
by Tom Stoppard
"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting"
by Tom Stoppard
"It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."
by Tom Stoppard
"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
by Tom Stoppard
"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art"
by Tom Stoppard
"The days of the digital watch are numbered."
by Tom Stoppard
"The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say."
by Tom Stoppard
"We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style."
by Tom Stoppard
"We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."
by Tom Stoppard
"We're actors--we're the opposite of people"
by Tom Stoppard
"We're actors - we're the opposite of people."
by Tom Stoppard
"Age is a high price to pay for maturity."
by Tom Stoppard
"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."
by Tom Stoppard
"The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists."
by Tom Stoppard
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see."
by Tom Stoppard
"Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?"
by Tom Stoppard


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