649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me.

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

Words, words. They're all we have to go on.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor.