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Them Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.
- Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
- I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.
- 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…
- 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 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…
- It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
- We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of…
- Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension…
- It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
- Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to…
- 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 printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the…
- Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life…
- I can be affectionate about a lot of things without watching them.
- I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them.
- Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking…
- Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them.
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster