“Words, words. They're all we have to go on.”

—  Tom Stoppard, book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Words, words. They're all we have to go on." by Tom Stoppard?
Tom Stoppard photo
Tom Stoppard116
British playwright 1937

Related quotes

Daniel Wallace photo

“This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.”

Daniel Wallace book Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions

Source: Big Fish

Rush Limbaugh photo

“If the word of how they're being treated keeps getting out, we're going to have al-Qaeda people surrendering all over the world trying to get in place.”

Rush Limbaugh (1951) U.S. radio talk show host, Commentator, author, and television personality

Stated about Guantanamo Bay (June 16, 2005), quoted in — [Stanford, David, Doonesbury.com's The War in Quotes, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2008, 68, 16900868M, 0740772317, 9780740772313, 2008024621]

Martin Amis photo

“His last words were spoken to a woman, to the nurse who was holding his hand. Perhaps we all have the last words ready when we go into the last room. Perhaps the thing about last words is not how good they are, but whether we can get them out. What Larkin said faintly was, "I'm going to the inevitable."”

Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist

"Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin" (1997)

Margaret Atwood photo

“Where do the words go
when we have said them?”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Source: Procedures For Underground

Mao Zedong photo

“All the rest of the world uses the word "electricity." They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!”

Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

Quoted in Khrushchev Remembers (1970), p. 474

David Mamet photo

“It's only words… unless they're true.”

David Mamet (1947) American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director

Terry Pratchett photo

“No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.”

Terry Pratchett book Nation

Source: Nation

“Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.”

Tim Dorsey book Nuclear Jellyfish

Source: Nuclear Jellyfish

H.D. photo

“We don't have to know,
only to be:
let go the jumble of worn words,
reason and vanity.”

H.D. (1886–1961) American Imagist poet

Star by Day.

F. Scott Fitzgerald photo

“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

Related topics