Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

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• I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Know
  • Born
  • Died

• What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Mind
  • Compassion
  • Results

• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Way
  • Egg

• Sharing is the essence of social media.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Media
  • Social Media
  • Sharing

• With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Season
  • Minds
  • Resources

• But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Great
  • Emotional
  • Jazz

• Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Chance
  • Note
  • Seldom

• It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?

  

  Victor Hugo

• Far from it be the notion that the Supreme Being is corporeal, having a material form.

  

  Maimonides

• There aren't a lot of supernatural things that I'm scared or super terrified of, but clowns are definitely on that list.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Supernatural

• Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

  

  Maurice Baring
  • Mind

• I did try to leave, and she came running after me.

  

  David Gest
  • She
  • Running

• It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

  

  Lee Atwater
  • Up
  • Country
  • Truth

• What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.

  

  Charlie Adam
  • Death

• I find acting slightly nerve racking, but I like the challenge.

  

  Jane Wiedlin
  • Challenge

• No city owns me, you know what I'm saying? I'm from New York, but no city owns me. Nobody can bottle up my sound and box me in. Yes, I am a rapper, but am I a New York rapper? No. I am from New York, I love New York to death, but I will not conform myself to one place, no.

  

  ASAP Ferg
  • Up
  • Death
  • City

• Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Marriage

• So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • World
  • Business
  • Power

• I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!

  

  John Gardner
  • Believe
  • Energy
  • Grief

• Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Christianity teaches that the human race is depraved, fallen, and sinful.

  

  D. James Kennedy
  • Race
  • Christianity
  • Fallen

• Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Mean
  • Moving
  • Imagination