Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
-
I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.
-
As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
-
People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
-
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
-
I depend on good editors and a good director.
-
I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
-
I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
-
Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
-
There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
-
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
-
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
-
We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
-
It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.
-
If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
-
Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
-
Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.
-
The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
-
L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
-
I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone.
-
I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
-
I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
-
The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.
-
It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.
