Showing posts with label Tom Stoppard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tom Stoppard. Show all posts

Friday, March 20, 2009

Quotes

"Conservation is a state of
harmony between men and land."
- Aldo Leopold


"Defeat is not the worst of failures.
Not to have tried is the true failure."
- George Edward Woodberry


"Tip the world over on its
side and everything loose
will land in Los Angeles."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

"I don't really trust a sane person."
- Lyle Alzado


"The truth is always a compound of two half-
truths, and you never reach it, because there
is always something more to say."
- Tom Stoppard

Character may be manifested in the great
moments but it is made in the small ones.
- Philip Brooks

Monday, March 02, 2009

Quotes

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is
a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at
life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what
I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
- Dr. Seuss

"Earth is a flower and
it's pollinating."
- Neil Young

"People are, if anything, more touchy
about being thought silly than they
are about being thought unjust."
- E. B. White

"We do on stage things that are supposed to happen
off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on
every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."
- Tom Stoppard

"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the
critics. The ones who want to be writers read
the reviews, the ones who want to write don't
have the time to read reviews."
- William Faulkner

"The average, healthy, well-adjusted
adult gets up at seven-thirty in the
morning feeling just plain terrible."
- Jean Kerr

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Quotes

"Be faithful to that which
exists within yourself."
- Andre Gide

"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't
the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment."
- Robert Benchley

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It's not a matter of whether or not
someone's watching over you. It's just
a question of their intentions."
- Randy K. Milholland

"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."
- Tom Stoppard

"There are 350 varieties of shark,
not counting loan and pool."
L. M. Boyd

Friday, November 28, 2008

Quotaria

"I think age is a very high
price to pay for maturity."
- Tom Stoppard

"Action is the foundational
key to all success."
- Pablo Picasso

"If I had to live my life again, I'd
make the same mistakes, only sooner."
- Tallulah Bankhead

"The sun, the earth, love, friends, our
very breath are parts of the banquet."
- Rebecca H. Davis

"There is a muscular energy in
sunlight corresponding to the
spiritual energy of wind."
- Annie Dillard

"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue
dome that hangs over everything is better."
- Thomas Carlyle