Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?
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Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
TOM STOPPARD It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has ...
TOM STOPPARD Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of ag...
TOM STOPPARD Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a ...
TOM STOPPARD It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not...
STEPHEN FRY It is terrible-and I mean terrible-nuisance to be kin to the president of the United States.
HARRY S TRUMAN In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in...
ED STOPPARD Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
PAT BARKER It doesn't mean we're going to end camp -- it's the end of bed-check,
JOE GIBBS I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw It is better ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Eternity is best conceived if thought of as a joining of human and divine consciousness. Eternity an...
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON I thought at the end of the day they're never going to do it.
OZZY OSBOURNE There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhaus...
WINONA RYDER I don't think the ranking is going to mean anything to the coaches and the players as it relates to ...
BRUCE PEARL Eternity is really long, especially near the end
WOODY ALLEN True love; the feeling that takes you so much effort without needing something in return.
MEAN I mean, I think I just it added to my excitement to playing today, and just going out there and doin...
KARRIE WEBB It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to peop...
EMINEM One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the ...
C.S. LEWIS Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
MASON COOLEY To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD The thought of going through the terrible twos with twins terrified me.
HEATHER CASEY I thought it was terrible. That was discrimination right there.
DANTE CALCOTE To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having...
K'NAAN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN How do you feel?” she asked, trying to fluff his pillow. “Other than terrible, I mean.”
H...
JULIA QUINN Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being...
PETER HELLER You mean Tom Brady airing one out to David Patten ?
AL MICHAELS Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
JOSEPH ADDISON I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity
JERZY KOSIńSKI Eternity's a terrible thought
TOM STOPPARD I have a feeling that someone nearby is soon going to find out something about me that will mean the...
JOSEPH HELLER If you're going to do something, do it with a Don!' - Tom
EIICHIRō ODA I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was someth...
HOLLY BLACK Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't even a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with tim...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL We've seen Tom Cruise do it so thought we should too.
DECLAN DONNELLY Nothing -- I mean nothing -- and no-one -- I mean no-one -- will stop me going through to the end, a...
NICOLAS SARKOZY I want to see it. I mean, I'm not going to see anything. They've cleaned it all up. I just want to g...
ROCKY STARKEY I thought the process was going to take a lot longer, ... I was hoping it would have clicked by the ...
ROBBY GINEPRI I thought going in that we could get a good lap, ... My car felt really good in practice. Going out ...
DAVE BLANEY I think he seriously believes that deflowering an angel could mean an eternity in fiery hell.
CYNTHIA HAND If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions a...
BEL POWLEY I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
TOM STOPPARD Just because you came to the end of a cliff it doesnt mean that is the end,find a rope to climb down...
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM So the world ended.
And the next one began.
They were infinite.
The...
SARAH J. MAAS We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was c...
TINA WEYMOUTH It was just all of a sudden. I thought it looked terrible back in there and I felt someone had to do...
BETTY WILSON Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, ...
GERMAINE DE STAEL Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning...
ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE DE STAEL Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, ...
MADAME DE STAEL Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a...
TOM STOPPARD I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER You're going to see a lot of terrible, terrible evidence. A lot of terrible, terrible photos. What I...
PETER PERSAUD The way they were talking, we thought it was going to be the end of the world.
ALAN SEARS Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning a...
MADAME DE STAEL It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn...
HOLLY MARIE COMBS Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought / As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
JOHN KEATS To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN That's terrible to take advantage of people like that. I wouldn't have thought that he was that type...
MELISSA RIVERA Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Terrible thought she was brave. She remembered it now, heard his voice in her head as if he stood ne...
STACIA KANE I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my b...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my b...
KHALIL GIBRAN I thought he'd appreciate that. Whenever Tom led our morning worship service, he'd often just sit in...
GREG ROLLINS Tom Holden was outstanding in goal. I thought the whole defense played extremely well.
BOB STREETEN If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
RICK RIORDAN I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a rela...
EVAN GLODELL The first rack felt real good and I thought I was going to come out a little flat and have to pick i...
LAUREN FIRICH "What does it mean if i'm afraid? Does it mean something bad is going to happen?" "No, it doesn't...
C. JOYBELL C. I've never had a moment when I thought: "Tom, you've made it!", and I don't think I want to, because...
TOM FLETCHER Even to the point of drifting off and thinking, 'well, this is how it ends.' And that's exactly what...
LAURIE MACARTNEY It doesn't mean you have to do that (grant a waiver) for every Tom, Dick and Harry that comes in her...
DREW ALEXANDER The league is a lot better than I thought it was going to be.
BILL DRANGINIS When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Bo...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Nine minutes is not a long time, if you're going to take a nap. But it's an eternity if you're going...
CHRIS COLLINS We were flabbergasted. It was an end of an era and we felt terrible. It is a sad commentary on our t...
GERALDINE MILLS I never thought it was going to be like this. I thought it was going to be one to two days.
DOROTHY JOHNSON I was suddenly arrested by what seemed to be an awful voice proclaiming the words, Eternity! Eternit...
STEPHEN GRELLET Probably, I thought, my suffering and training is a lifelong process. It will end only when I go to ...
JONI EARECKSON TADA When I started out as a novelist, I thought I was going to be a private-eye writer. That was my inte...
GREG RUCKA A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put sever...
MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, ...
ALAN MOORE Why there is word for "End"???, which mean why there is "End",...!?
(So far it doesn't ex...
DEYTH BANGER I'm shocked that it's in this good a condition. I mean I would have thought, I'm from California, I ...
JASON MOORE Anybody can be rattled. Tom Brady is a great quarterback, but at the end of the day, he is just a qu...
JASON PIERRE-PAUL Dennis and I and Crawford had a heck of a race. One minute, I thought Dennis was going to win. Then ...
TED MUSGRAVE Just know that I always have, and always will really love you, Lisa. Baby or no baby. Past or no pas...
A. VIOLET END Look, that was some weird shit, you dying and then returning from the dead. I know it was no acciden...
A. VIOLET END All 22 guys on our team, they mean a lot to me. I love every one of them. It?s a shame this had to e...
BILL JAMES Love is a terrible thing and its loss is even worse.
Love is a terrible thing and I want nothin...
NICOLA YOON Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going...
JACK KEROUAC Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it n...
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternit...
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TOM STOPPARD Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usual...
TOM STOPPARD I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge We...
TOM STOPPARD GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mista...
TOM STOPPARD A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
TOM STOPPARD There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word ...
TOM STOPPARD Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came acro...
TOM STOPPARD Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on stagin...
TOM STOPPARD One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that...
TOM STOPPARD The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
TOM STOPPARD You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the ...
TOM STOPPARD Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by on...
TOM STOPPARD Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of ag...
TOM STOPPARD As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it...
TOM STOPPARD All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and...
TOM STOPPARD We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
TOM STOPPARD Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
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TOM STOPPARD