649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now.

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

I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn’t one’s lover.

Don’t clap too loudly – it’s a very old world.

Get me inside any boardroom and I’ll get any decision I want.

Back in the East you can’t do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You’d think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it’s not.

I like pop music. I consider rock ‘n’ roll to be a branch of pop music.

Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one’s nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops.