Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Art is craft, not inspiration.

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• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Stories

• History is a race between education and catastrophe.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Education
  • Race

• Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Action

• My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Father
  • Night
  • Small

• I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • World
  • Book
  • Lost

• When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Star
  • Thought
  • First

• 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

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

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Believe
  • Politics
  • Any

• Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Father
  • Government
  • Gun

• I am a big Seth Rollins fan and have been for a long period of time.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Fan
  • Seth Rollins

• If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • History
  • You

• Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Beautiful
  • Always
  • Glass

• I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

  

  Larry David
  • Sometimes
  • Actions
  • Some

• Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Friend
  • Poetry

• Being fundamentally decent and honest and willing to put others before yourself - that's necessary for being an effective policymaker.

  

  Jake Sullivan

• I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and called the office and told them to bring me a bunch more. Then I had my cousin's store deliver a bunch of smoked ham and turkeys. I mean, these people are hungry and living under a bridge.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • People
  • She
  • Bridge

• Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Technology

• There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

  

  Andre Gide
  • Work
  • Art

• When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.

  

  R. Kelly
  • You
  • Church
  • Laugh

• I am a lip person. I constantly need a really good lip moisturizer with me. Mine is a Clairin's moisture replenishing lip balm. I have two of them: I have one I keep next to my bed, so it's the first and last thing in the morning and evening, and then 10 times a day in my purse.

  

  Lindy Booth
  • Good
  • Morning

• If you keep sugar apart from us, we cannot have experience of its sweetness. If we eat it, then only we know its taste. A man cannot get Mukti if he simply repeats 'Rama, Krishna, or Govinda' for a thousand years. He must repeat it heartily (knowing the secret).

  

  Bhagawan Nityananda
  • Experience
  • Repeat
  • Sweetness

• Poor Gauguin, 'way off there on his island! I'll wager he spends most of his time thinking of Rue Lafitte. I advised him to go to New Orleans, but he decided it was too civilized. He had to have people around him with flowers on their heads and rings in their noses before he could feel at home. Now if I should leave my house for more than two days...

  

  Edgar Degas
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Art is craft, not inspiration.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Art
  • Crafts