More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention of Love (his portrait of the poet and scholar A. E. Housman) -- with characters from life and literature. But one cannot always tell the difference between those who are real and those who are imaginary.
It's all a matter of history. Brandy is no solace. Librium only lies me down like a dead snow queen. Yes! I am still the criminal.
I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!
The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.
To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is noting more to worry about!
Christ is risen from the dead!
I'm definitely a morning person. I wake up dead happy, looking forward to having my cereal!
People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.
I'm out for presidents to represent me (Say what?) I'm out for dead presidents to represent me.
Our job if you will, is to roll the stone away. God's job is to raise the dead.
I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message.
The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
Thinking that what you want equals what's best for you is a dead end.
Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.
If you don't appear at all one day they think you're lazy or dead.
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
Write as if your parents are dead.
You were the dead; theirs was the future.
Couture is more your own world, they come and buy head-to-toe - they buy the jewelry, bags, coats, dresses, bodies underneath. . . . But couture is not dead - it's taken another shape.
Even to play a dead body; that'd be an easy gig.