Stephen Joshua Sondheim Quotes (30 Quotes)

How can you know what you want till you get what you want and you see if you like it.

It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.

Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.

Tonight, tonight, wont be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.

Anything you do, Let it come from you, Then it will be new. Give us more to see.

If the end is right, it justifies the beans.

This is ridiculous. What am I doing here I'm in the wrong story.

No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or easy but something I never knew. Love within reason, that isn't love and I learned that from you.

You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to lingerbe heard.

The situation's fraught, Fraughter than I thought, With horrible, impossible possibilities.

Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne.

Can't we just pursue our lives With our children and our wives Till that happy day arrives How do you ignore All the witches All the curses All the wolves, all the lies The false hopes, the goodbyes ...

It's called flowers wilt. It's called apples rot. It's called thieves get rich and saints get shot. It's called God don't answer prayers a lot. Alright, now you know.

Work is what you do for others, Liebchen, Art is what you do for yourself.

You may know what you need but to get what you want, Better see that you keep what you had.

Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake.. On then with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break Never look back NEVER LOOK BACK. ... Follies.

How does it happen When does it disappear How does it start to go Does it slip away slow So you never even notice it's happening'

Let the moment go.... Don't forget it for a moment, though. Just remembering you've had an 'and' when you're back to 'or' makes the 'or' mean more than it did before.... Now I understand And it's time to leave the woods.

The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you...

Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment...

So here's to the girls on the go Everybody tries Look into their eyes and you'll see what they know Everybody dies. A toast to that invincible bunch The dinosaurs surviving the crunch Let's hear it for the ladies who lunch Everybody rise.

I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me.

Trouble is,son, The farther you run, The more you feel undefined For what you have left undone And, more, what you've left behind.

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.

Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.

I do not hope for what I cannot have I do not cling to things I cannot keep.

Just remember, Someone is on your side (our side) Someone else is not While we're seeing our side Maybe we forgot they are not alone. No one is alone.

Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.

Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.

I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating businessoh how true.