Quote

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

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
Believe
East
Paper
Power
Anything
Back
Without
Right
Much
Papers

More quotes by Tom Stoppard

Image
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
Image
Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
Tom Stoppard
Image
You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.
Tom Stoppard
Image
The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.
Tom Stoppard
Image
All mystical experience is coincidence and vice versa, of course.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I burn with no causes.
Tom Stoppard
Image
It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
Tom Stoppard
Image
...Everything has to be taken on trust truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?
Tom Stoppard
Image
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.
Tom Stoppard
Image
It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!
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
Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
Tom Stoppard
Image
My mind gets into a verbal mode.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard