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People 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…
- People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.
- We're actors. We're the opposite of people.
- 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.
- I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
- The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.
- 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…
- I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about…
- In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed…
- I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and…
- The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on…
- The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things…
- 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…
- There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs…
- The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one…
- I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.
- Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.
- 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…
- You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
- 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 fancying…
- The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to…
- When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up…
- I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle