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Tom Stoppard Quotes

I've never really worked out this thought, and I don't know if I'm really conscious of it, but I can see there's an attraction about writing about a period that's over and isn't going to change colour while you look at it.

Tom Stoppard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: english
Birth: July 3, 1937

Topics

Change Writing Thought You Look See

The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

Michael Heizer

History Art American Way Theme Big

I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the environment affects women around the world.

Sophia Bush

Women Fight World Poverty See I See

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

Michelangelo

Imagination Stone Inside Task Statue

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

Dian Fossey

People Feel I Can Comfortable More

When you get a groove going, time flies.

Donald Fagen

Time Time Flies You Going Get Flies

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

Claire Danes

Alone Imagination Being Alone Think

Someone putting down $25 of his or her hard-earned money to buy my product, then doing it again because they felt the payoff was worth it. That's as good as it gets for an author.

Brad Thor

Good Money Someone Doing Worth Down

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

Kristin Hannah

Best Waiting Choice Sitting Muse

I'm a lover of film and storytelling. I believe that I was put on earth to tell stories, and I'm not interested in telling the same stories over and over and over again.

Justin Simien

Believe Earth I Believe Storytelling

The infrastructure at Union Station is antiquated. High-speed is going to come in eventually. We need to upgrade that system. Every day the Metro comes in, the Amtrak comes in, and they idle their engines for hours, spewing poisonous toxins - all that crap - into the air.

Kevin de Leon

Day Every Day Idle Need Air System

You can pick wild strawberries with your eyes closed, locating them by smell, for they are two parts perfume to one part taste. An hour of searching might yield a handful if you're lucky. Wild strawberries can't be encouraged, nor can they be discouraged: They come to you unbidden and unearned. They appear, or do not, by the grace of the sun.

Hope Jahren

Eyes Sun Grace You Perfume Lucky

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth Man I Am Sorry Truth Is Think