649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived.

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own.

If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could.

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

I feel overestimated.

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.

One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't.