#age

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#back #because #convention #enjoy #generally

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#between #difference #fade #into #live

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#dress #either #hamlet #like #most

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#exception #i #in my opinion #lot #me

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#courage #majority #minority #test #tolerance

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. ↗

— Brendan Francis

#demand #engagements #go #immediate #inspirations

It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors. ↗

— Vic Snyder

#been #citizens #donate #donors #important

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#congregation #his #measured #minister #mortgage

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. ↗

— Socrates

#bad #bad one #become #get #good

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. ↗

— Socrates

#deliver #enabled #find #i #inspiration