The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. Tom Stoppard More Quotes by Tom Stoppard More Quotes From Tom Stoppard Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers. Tom Stoppard goalkeepersenglandtoday I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none of it, but that's not true. Tom Stoppard cuttingfeel-goodthinking What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid? Tom Stoppard bluntpyramidsmind The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism. Tom Stoppard technologyselfscience Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society. Tom Stoppard optimalwellsbelieve If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true. Tom Stoppard untrueenoughsaid A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it. Tom Stoppard storiesinterestingthinking I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him. Tom Stoppard proudgivingthinking War is capitalism with the gloves off. Tom Stoppard capitalismgloveswar There would be this algebraic equation with an equals sign in the middle, and all the components would have different letters of the alphabet. It would come out right with x+z^2+t/q=y+co, and the co would be clothes off! Tom Stoppard clothesdifferentscience If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on. Tom Stoppard leftpeopleworld If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans! Tom Stoppard fieldswould-beworld You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics? Tom Stoppard philosophyhistoryart A circle is the longest distance to same point. Tom Stoppard distancephilosophyart "The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours. Tom Stoppard philosophyhistoryart Public postures have the configuration of private derangement. Tom Stoppard configurationposture On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night. Tom Stoppard ripfirenight Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does. Tom Stoppard artistmeanart It would have been nice to have had unicorns. Tom Stoppard unicornhas-beensnice Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper in their skulls that says- 'One day you are going to die. Tom Stoppard one-dayskullshome
