#hammers

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#generation #hammerstein #hits #movies #out

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#during #father #hammerstein #i #many

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#assumed #because #been #berlin #books

And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike. ↗

— James Wolcott

#bowl #central #comedy #could #creators

It's kind of hard to get deep with Rodgers and Hammerstein. I can't think of a moral in the music - it's just fun. ↗

— Jeff Long

#fun #get #hammerstein #hard #i

I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time. ↗

— Shirley Jones

#been #feel #fortunate #geniuses #hammerstein

I can't wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that's going to be the exclamation point. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#exclamation #exploding #going #hammerstein #i

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil. ↗

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

#anvil #counsels #effect #hammers #harsh

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#break #figuratively #hammers #i #i love

You need to know what you are before you can become what you are supposed to be. In order to know what you are now, you must learn what you are going to be. ↗

— S.K.N. Hammerstone

#angels-and-demons #death #demons #skn-hammerstone #the-rift