Tom Stoppard Quotes

The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them.

Tom Stoppard

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The challenge of pollution and global warming is no longer the science, or the rate of innovation, but the rate of implementation: We have the clean solutions; now let's bundle them and install them.

Jens Martin Skibsted

InnovationScienceChallengeNow

The places we'd play were full of bikers, brawlers, and drinkers coming off a day of work looking for a good time, and all these guys would be looking at me like Hannibal Lecter looking at his next victim.

Angus Young

WorkGoodTimeDayMeLooking

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

Jeffrey Archer

AttitudePrisonThinkLeavingHuman

Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

LiePeopleThinkFeelingSayNever

I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.

John Travolta

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When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

Lorrie Moore

WomenTeacherCuteSchoolMeRun

When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I was happy staying in that mode. It was more chordal based and more lyric driven. I enjoyed not making riff-based songs built around a guitar idea.

Chris Cornell

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In every generation, there's a strong tendency for everyone to think like everyone else.

Bret Stephens

StrongThinkGenerationEveryone

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

Anne Rice

RelationshipEnjoyTalkAlwaysWeb

I don't like the fact that North Korea is testing nuclear weapons, and I don't like the fact that they're testing missiles and shooting them out in the sea in kind of an antagonistic fashion.

Scott DesJarlais

SeaFashionKindOutShootingLike

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

Leo Szilard

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I used to apply waterproof mascara before a game - it was the easiest thing to wear while I was playing that wouldn't sweat off - but not anymore.

Kelley O'Hara

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