Quotes by Stoppard, Tom

"Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?"

Stoppard, Tom on eternity   

"Age is a high price to pay for maturity."

Stoppard, Tom on age and aging
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"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."

Stoppard, Tom on journalism and journalists
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"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."

Stoppard, Tom on knowledge   

"Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it."

Stoppard, Tom on life   

"The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists."

Stoppard, Tom on newspapers   

"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."

Stoppard, Tom on quotations   

"Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them."

Stoppard, Tom on responsibility   

"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."

Stoppard, Tom on evolution   

"I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion."

Stoppard, Tom on sports   

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

Stoppard, Tom on beginning
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"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means."

Stoppard, Tom on tragedies   

"It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."

Stoppard, Tom on voting