Tom Stoppard

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#love #humor

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#water

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#music

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#life

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#evil #evil

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#chances #doors #entrance #exit #opportunities

We're actors — we're the opposite of people! ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#archetypes #humanity #humor #people #symbolism

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#actors #drama #entrance #exit #life

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#health #life #soul #life

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#high #high price #maturity #pay #price