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Idea Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary…
- I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who…
- The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other…
- If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
- Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The…
- When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility…
- The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.
- What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea.
- When I was 20, the idea of having a play on anywhere was just beyond my dreams.
- The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we…
- It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea…
- The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.
More Idea Quotes
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden