Tom Stoppard: Trending quotes (page 2)

“What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.”

“It would have been nice to have had unicorns.”

“It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.”

“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.”

“I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.”

“… reality, the name we give to the common experience.”

“Donner: Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”

“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”

“When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.”

“It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.”

“Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive?
Guildenstern: What did you have in mind?… A short, blunt human pyramid…?”

“What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?”

“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.”

“I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.”

“The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.”

“It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.”

“For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.”

“Give us this day our daily mask.”

“Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.”