Quote

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

Tom Stoppard

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
Dramaturge
Film Director
Journalist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
Zlin
Sir Tom Stoppard
Answers
Waiting
Whole
Life
Questions
Prepared

More quotes by Tom Stoppard

Image
I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper in their skulls that says- 'One day you are going to die.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.
Tom Stoppard
Image
If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
Tom Stoppard
Image
You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
Tom Stoppard
Image
All mystical experience is coincidence and vice versa, of course.
Tom Stoppard
Image
If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.
Tom Stoppard
Image
There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
Tom Stoppard
Image
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.
Tom Stoppard
Image
It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
Tom Stoppard
Image
The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
Tom Stoppard
Image
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
Tom Stoppard