Quote

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.

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
Feel
Feels
Things
Think
Thinking
Dodged
Shells
Bullets
Turned

More quotes by Tom Stoppard

Image
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Your opinions are your symptoms.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
Tom Stoppard
Image
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
Tom Stoppard
Image
...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
Tom Stoppard
Image
If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!
Tom Stoppard
Image
I'm attracted to the past.
Tom Stoppard
Image
My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.
Tom Stoppard
Image
For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
Tom Stoppard
Image
In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.
Tom Stoppard