Tom Stoppard Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Tom Stoppard quotes and sayings page 3 (87 year old dramatist). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 125 we have for him.
“I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
“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.”
“Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.”
“The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.”
“I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.”
“It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator.”
“There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny.”
“The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.”
“Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love the experience. I don't dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else.”
“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
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