Stephen Sondheim Quotes

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

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• We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Sports
  • Easy
  • Rights

• I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • Heart
  • Think

• I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Simple
  • Ocean
  • Beach

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Uniqueness

• Dancing has always been a passion of mine.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Passion
  • Always
  • Mine

• Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Freedom
  • Law
  • Stop

• It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • World
  • Money
  • End

• I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Done
  • Truth

• I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Anything
  • Adore
  • Michael

• You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • May
  • Medical
  • Doctor

• The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Police
  • Stuff
  • Academy

• As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • Children
  • Hope

• I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Simple
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • American
  • Thanks

• The common denominator is a love of music.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Music
  • Love
  • Common

• It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Black
  • Earth

• Don’t bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew, a particle, as birds carry only drops away from water, and the wind a grain of salt.

  

  Olav H. Hauge
  • Light
  • Water
  • Heaven

• When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Peace
  • Lake

• I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• As far as my street cred goes, I'll always have that, because I always hang with the kids. I'll jump right off the stage and buy them a beer. I'll be a star on stage, but I'll always hang with the kids.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Kids
  • Star
  • Jump

• I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Writing