3 Tom Stoppard Quotes on Ideas

Tom Stoppard quotes on ideas

35. This thing here, which looks like a wooden club, is actually several pieces of particular wood cunningly put together in a certain way so that the whole thing is sprung, like a dance floor. it's for hitting cricket balls with. If you get it right, the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds, and all you've done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout, and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly. What we're trying to do is to write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might...travel.

50. Bakunin: Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress

62. If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.