Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!

Stephen Sondheim

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• You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Push

• My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Mom

• I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Reality
  • End

• Don't gamble the future of your children and Malaysia; think and contemplate because your vote will determine not only the future of the country but also your grandchildren.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Country
  • Children
  • Future

• Oh rainy day woman,I've never seem to see you for the good times or the sunshine.You have been a friend of mine, rainy day woman.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Sunshine

• No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot, survivor of that time, that place. - 1961

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Time
  • Sky

• For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.

  

  Learned Hand

• Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Leaders

• I started reading DC stuff much later in my life. You realize that there's a huge difference between the Marvel universe and the DC universe and the characters that own it.

  

  David Harewood
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Universe

• Doing multiple character work is athletic in every way - vocally, physically, spiritually, and mentally. With a show like 'Passing Strange,' I usually lose about 12 pounds.

  

  Colman Domingo
  • Work
  • Character

• Klopp would reproach me for not tracking back properly. I took things on board, and I listened to him. I worked hard in training; I stayed behind after training. That's what helped me to shine in the Bundesliga because I scored quite a lot of goals despite some difficult games in the league.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • Training
  • Goals
  • Shine

• I think it's wrong for the government to subpoena records from journalists involved in national-security reporting (particularly since I do it myself). I do believe it has a chilling effect on the ability to gather news about potential abuses masked by inappropriate classification.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • Believe

• I don't think Brexit is going to help people in Britain.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • People
  • Help

• The English and Japanese are the most inventive dressers in the world, but French girls are the most beautiful. I am still always amazed by the style of French girls, and the only reason is that they dress according to themselves and not according to fashion. They know what suits them.

  

  Lou Doillon
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Fashion

• When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

  

  Drake

• As I've said before, free money scams are a problem.

  

  Matthew Lesko
  • Money
  • Free

• By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply.

  

  Jean-Marie Le Pen
  • Team
  • Basketball
  • Soccer

• It's hard to be scared when there are 80 people around you.

  

  Clea Duvall
  • People

• The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Proud
  • Angry
  • Sky

• The most challenging work and the best work I've ever done was in a thing I did for PBS called 'Lemon Sky', a play by Lanford Wilson. I think it's the rawest, most complex work that I've had to do, and the thing I'm most proud of.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Work
  • Done
  • Proud

• I was born in Swindon... a place that always looked west. I found that wherever I go I love to have a room with a view of the western sky. My late brother and I, when we were small, had a room at the back of the house that overlooked the sunset; and both for he and I it was kind of magical.

  

  Justin Hayward The Moody Blues
  • House
  • Small
  • Brother

• There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Hate
  • Opinion
  • Hero

• Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Sky
  • Swings
  • Razors