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Tom Stoppard Quotes

To be in love with Debo Devonshire is hardly a distinction.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Distinction Hardly

We are watching things happen with one degree changes in ocean temperature that we thought wouldn't happen until there were two or three degree changes in ocean temperature. These are facts.

Ocean Facts Thought Things Happen

As far as I can see, the best writers in the last two hundred years have been Whitman, Rilke, Proust, Kafka. Their best works: 'Leaves of Grass - 1855;' 'Duino Elegies;' 'The Captive & The Fugitive;' 'The Castle.'

Best I Can Grass Two Years See

I keep my head down, my mouth shut and work hard.

Work Work Hard Mouth Down Hard Head

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Meister Eckhart

Home God Walk Out Gone Who

Listening to music and lyrics and watching movies, I think, uses a lot of the same muscles we use in reading and experiencing poetry - and yet we somehow forget that we have those when it comes to sitting down with a book of poems.

Music Poetry Listening Book Reading

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

Media Like Sounds Convention

There are some risks we choose to take because the benefits from taking them exceed the possible costs. Optimal behavior takes risks that are worthwhile. This is the central paradigm of finance: we must take risks to achieve rewards, but not all risks are equally rewarded.

Robert F. Engle

Finance Risks Behavior Choose Take

No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words and developed a vocabulary with my sense of hearing. I play guitar by ear.

Words Parents Guitar Play Vocabulary

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

America Now Meet Class Right Middle

If we all take the time to listen and love each other, this world would be a better place.

Love Time World Better Place Listen

A lot of stuff's going to happen in a football career that you don't like.

Football You Career Happen Going

My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.

Diane Setterfield

Me Crime Exploring Same Fiction Led

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