Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
-
New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
-
The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
-
For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
-
Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
-
The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
-
My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
-
Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
-
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
-
You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
-
All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.
-
I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
-
When you are in the infrastructure sector, you've to work along with the government.
-
With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
-
I want to do movies but not talk about them.
Nastassja Kinski -
I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
-
The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
-
There's nothing more adult than being ripped away from friends and family, you know? Having to manage a life when you're not fully there, manage a life when you don't make a lot of money. It's very adult.
-
The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
-
May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.
-
It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and still I was alone.
-
I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.
