Top 275 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

About Tom Stoppard

These are some quotes by English author Tom Stoppard Dramatist, who was born on July 3, 1937.

For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction.

For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction.

Tom Stoppard

I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

Tom Stoppard

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

Tom Stoppard

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

Tom Stoppard

I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.

I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.

Tom Stoppard

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

Tom Stoppard

Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.

Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.

Tom Stoppard

The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life.

Tom Stoppard

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 matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

Tom Stoppard

In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers.

In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers.

Tom Stoppard

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