Tom Stoppard
Title: Sir Thomas Stoppard
Birth Name: Tomáš Straussler
Birthdate: July 3, 1937
Birthplace: Zlin, Czechoslovakia
Occupation: Playwright
Profile: Awarded an Academy Award in 1998. Knighted in 1997.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stoppard
Number of Quotes: 3
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such
as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means
that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops.