Tom Stoppard quotes and words of wisdom

"It"s better to be quotable than to be honest."
Found in the topic Quotations.

"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
Found in the topic Imagination.

"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
Found in the topic Age.

"The bad end unhappily, the good unlucky. That is what tragedy means."
Found in the topic Theater.

"Age is a high price to pay for maturity."
Found in the topic Beauty.

"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 the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."
Found in the topic Bridge.

"All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course"
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Every exit is an entrance somewhere else."
Found in the topic Begin.

"Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it."
Found in the topic Bet.

"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."
Found in the topic Maturity.

"The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals."
Found in the topic Delusion.

"Never believe in mirrors or newspapers."
Found in the topic Never.

"I disagree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it."
Found in the topic Rights.

Interesting Quotes

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.Dick Brandon

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.Sir Edmund Hillary