Quote

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

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
Education
Place
Favour
Personally
University

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
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
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
Tom Stoppard
Image
My scripts are possibly too talkative.
Tom Stoppard
Image
We must be born with an intuition of mortality.
Tom Stoppard
Image
One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.
Tom Stoppard
Image
A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
Tom Stoppard
Image
To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.
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
Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!
Tom Stoppard
Image
I burn with no causes.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.
Tom Stoppard
Image
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.
Tom Stoppard
Image
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress
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