My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.” — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Success in life is to maintain this ecstasy, to burn always with this hard gemlike flame.” — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn.” — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“The whole of life is like that now. It’s even impossible to think naturally because opinion has been set out for you… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
“What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
