It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Quote by Tom Stoppard

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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with...

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with...

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing...

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing...

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe...

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe...

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake,...

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake,...

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had...

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had...

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic...

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic...

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.