#ted

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#fool #i #i wonder #invented #kissing

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#compassion #dignity #forth #i #i think

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing. ↗

— Marie Carmichael Stopes

#been #coming #each #even #fresh

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#material #really #rich #talented #wonderfully

I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#been #coin #i #interested #me

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#education #go #i #out #university

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom

I'm attracted to the past. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#i #past

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#fact #new #people #work

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#any #defense #exists #idea #institution