Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Stephen Sondheim

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• Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • You
  • Take
  • Shots

• Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Soul

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Powerful
  • Personality

• When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Thinking
  • Reaction
  • Fragrance

• I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she's a know-it-all. She thinks she's marketing herself and her work. All she's really doing is turning readers off.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Work
  • She
  • Advice

• I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Believe
  • Politics
  • Any

• Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Done
  • History
  • Pretty

• You've got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You've got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you've done your best, that's all you can do.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Good
  • Long
  • Done

• The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • American
  • Reality
  • Same

• A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Dream
  • City
  • Girlfriend

• I'm going to discipline my kids, and can't no one tell me how to discipline my kids.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Kids
  • Discipline
  • Tell

• I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Beautiful
  • Nice
  • Places

• I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Education
  • Learning

• Love is not all: it is not meat nor drinkNor slumber nor a roof against the rain;Nor yet a floating spar to men that sinkAnd rise and sink and rise and sink again;Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;Yet many a man is making friends with deathEven as I speak, for lack of love alone.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Alone

• If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.

  

  Maxwell Anderson
  • Heart
  • Art
  • May

• Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.

  

  Jerry Bruckheimer
  • Worry

• I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player.'

  

  Kevin Durant
  • People
  • Trying
  • Player

• That's kind of the nature of the profession I'm in. It's frustrating. Things don't go your way, and I was no exception, in that I spent many years struggling to get work, and there are a lot of people more talented than myself who got jobs before me. And I finally, after years and years and years, got lucky.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • People
  • Kind
  • Struggle

• Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Art
  • Chaos