I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sull...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll s...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don'...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the l...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Alright! You sir, you sir, how about a shave?
Come and visit your good friend Sweeney.
You...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM A close-up on screen can say all a song can.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until ...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the con...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Unless the object of the singer’s affection is a vampire, surely what Hart means is unphotogenic. ...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM If I cannot fly, let me sing.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagi...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir...

Keep it off your boots, sir...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player."
That isn't fiddle...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them fe...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM I would have been a geologist.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM I think 'lunch' is one of the funniest words in the world.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you&#...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM I certainly wanted my name in lights. I wanted my name on a marquee. I wanted recognition on Broadwa...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Though it's fearful,
Though it's deep, though it's dark
And though you may lose the path...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what&...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Merrily We Roll Along
STEPHEN SONDHEIM In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I did...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song fr...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public ge...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM TODD:
The history of the world, my love --
LOVETT:
Save a lot of graves,
Do a lo...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM There's a hole in the world like a great black pit
and the vermin of the world inhabit it
...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't ...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til t...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Was that me? Yes it was. Was that him? No it wasn't..
Just a trick of the woods!
Just ...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Sondheim Sings: Volume II (1946-60).
STEPHEN SONDHEIM It ain't just a question of misunderstood, Deep down inside him, he's no good
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Sail Away.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Stephen Sondheim was there to coach us. It was wonderful. He'd say surprising things: I shouldn't en...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. Y...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Sometimes people leave you halfway through the woods. Do not let it grieve you, no one leaves for go...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade ...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just ent...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
STEPHEN SONDHEIM I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making ...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sou...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integ...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
STEPHEN B. STEPHEN LEACOCK There are only two worthwhile things to leave behind when you depart this world of ours: children an...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM "SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE" Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imaginat...
STEPHEN COVEY Demons manifest themselves in people in different ways. For instance, out of nowhere, somebody can b...
STEPHEN BALDWIN I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my...
STEPHEN HAWKING Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, ...
STEPHEN COVEY Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good r...
STEPHEN CHOW I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whethe...
STEPHEN KING Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we...
STEPHEN COVEY A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statemen...
STEPHEN COVEY Listen with your eyes for feelings.
STEPHEN COVEY We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inward...
STEPHEN HAWKING Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
STEPHEN KING And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invadin...
STEPHEN KING Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
STEPHEN KING I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find th...
STEPHEN KING You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long a...
STEPHEN KING When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
STEPHEN KING The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your fe...
STEPHEN KING Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.
STEPHEN KING We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
STEPHEN KING People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small ...
STEPHEN KING Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
STEPHEN COVEY Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
STEPHEN COVEY Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
STEPHEN COVEY Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
STEPHEN COVEY Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along ...
STEPHEN HAWKING Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
STEPHEN COVEY The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain...
STEPHEN HUNTER Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.
STEPHEN KINZER I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. ...
STEPHEN BALDWIN Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important o...
STEPHEN DOUGLAS Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
STEPHEN KING Get busy living, or get busy dying.
STEPHEN KING Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
STEPHEN GARDINER The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
STEPHEN KING Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn...
STEPHEN COLBERT Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.
STEPHEN HAWKING I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my...
STEPHEN HAWKING During the 1990s the United States sought to impose the 'Washington Consensus' on Latin Amer...
STEPHEN KINZER My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a ...
STEPHEN DOBYNS I'm looking for a woman with the body of Kelly Brook and the mind of Stephen Fry.
STEPHEN MERCHANT I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to ...
STEPHEN COLBERT I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any ...
STEPHEN DALDRY So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is r...
STEPHEN HAWKING [Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to the...
STEPHEN BATCHELOR John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he...
STEPHEN MERCHANT They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of...
STEPHEN PHILLIPS I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.
STEPHEN REA Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a ...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures,...
STEPHEN HARPER My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've be...
STEPHEN CURRY I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check mys...
STEPHEN COLLINS I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner...
STEPHEN FRY Growing up, it was about finding a way to entertain myself outdoors. We spent all the summers on the...
STEPHEN COLLETTI Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.
STEPHEN BREYER Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patr...
STEPHEN KINZER secrets are a problem, maybe the biggest problem of all. They weigh on the mind and take up space in...
STEPHEN KING Wanting to know things and do things is what the human race is all about. Exploration, Gwendy! Both ...
STEPHEN KING We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.
STEPHEN COVEY Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative an...
STEPHEN COVEY I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary...
STEPHEN HOPKINS I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremos...
STEPHEN HARPER I remember that Martin Hannett once had an idea of making a record and burying it in his garden so t...
STEPHEN MORRIS As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other ...
STEPHEN KINZER It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.
STEPHEN DORFF Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is bein...
STEPHEN KINZER There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literatu...
STEPHEN STILLS Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
STEPHEN LEACOCK Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he ...
STEPHEN AMBROSE I'm your full blown charismatic evangelical freak daddy.
STEPHEN BALDWIN My African heritage is a part of reggae music roots, and the concept is that the album, 'Revelat...
STEPHEN MARLEY Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wea...
STEPHEN MARLEY All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, wh...
STEPHEN HAWKING A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They we...
STEPHEN MERCHANT Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
STEPHEN LEACOCK The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and...
STEPHEN LEACOCK I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
STEPHEN LEACOCK A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carrie...
STEPHEN LEACOCK I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume...
STEPHEN DALDRY In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an exp...
STEPHEN COLBERT The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got i...
STEPHEN COLE Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go s...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
STEPHEN LEACOCK As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mo...
STEPHEN GRAHAM Basketball is booming, and it's not just an Under Armour standpoint: it's about the game its...
STEPHEN CURRY If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...re...
STEPHEN KING I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.
STEPHEN BALDWIN The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organiz...
STEPHEN COVEY Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
STEPHEN FRY And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're i...
STEPHEN KING Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
STEPHEN KING Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
STEPHEN SWID Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
STEPHEN LEACOCK He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a ...
STEPHEN KING Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is ...
STEPHEN HAWKING After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed ...
STEPHEN KING The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing th...
STEPHEN HAWKING If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and wha...
STEPHEN LEVINE Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
STEPHEN LEVINE (on love) It's the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always se...
STEPHEN KING But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one ...
STEPHEN FRY People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the...
STEPHEN KING Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked ...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. A...
STEPHEN KINZER Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, w...
STEPHEN MARLEY I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRY After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
STEPHEN KINZER Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your t...
STEPHEN MARLEY If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.
STEPHEN CLARKE There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the num...
STEPHEN FRY That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversa...
STEPHEN KENDRICK When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
STEPHEN KING His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead dec...
STEPHEN KING God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with...
STEPHEN CROTTS I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wo...
STEPHEN SPENDER After the day there cometh the derke night; For though the day be never so longe, At last the ...
STEPHEN HAWES The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
STEPHEN KING When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ...
STEPHEN FRY You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of ...
STEPHEN RICHARDS Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.
STEPHEN RICHARDS If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t...
STEPHEN KING We accept the love we think we deserve.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with som...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't sto...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. An...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain,...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough
STEPHEN CHBOSKY He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Enjoy it. Because it's happening.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY This moment will just be another story someday.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the re...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each othe...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it "Chops"...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY