Beneath the surface Quote by Stephen Sondheim Download Open image “I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.” — Stephen Sondheim ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beneath the surface Neurotic People Surface
I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We want to… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I'm very neurotic is what my closet says about me. It's always in great order. — Kimora Lee Simmons Copy Share Image
I'm neurotic in the sense that I can have a crowd of 300 people cheering you, applauding you, standing O, but one guy come out of the audience and go, "Hey man, you should have cut 20 minutes. That wasn't so good." And I'll just obsess on that one guy. After all this love, I'll obsess on him and want… — Wayne White Copy Share
“They all deserve to die. Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why. Because in all of the whole human race Mrs Lovett, there are two kinds of men and only two There's the one they put in his proper place And the one with his foot in the other one's face Look at me, Mrs Lovett, look at you.… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share
It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I don't find my life that interesting. The shows, maybe. But not me. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“Careful the things you say, Children will listen. Careful the things you do, Children will see. And learn. Children may not obey But children… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“Because in all of the whole human race Mrs. Lovett, there are two kinds of men and only two There's the one staying put… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I am going… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“So you intend to go through life never loving anyone? Just … things?” “No. I’m looking for something more.” “More than love?” “Yes.” “Is it not arrogant to think you deserve more, Khalid Ibn al-Rashid?” “Is it so arrogant to want something that doesn’t change with the wind? That doesn’t crumble at the first sign of adversity?” “You want something… — Renee Ahdieh Copy Share
We are true to our name. We're somewhat beneath the surface, and I think well always be to a certain extent. — Black Thought Copy Share Image
Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface. — Bryan Davis Copy Share Image
“The burning glow of fire basked him in a warm light. I feared to look at him, to study him again after the train, but found him darkly beautiful. There were statues in the graveyard near Hampshire House. Perfect lines chiseled and molded into stone, but many had tiny cracks and imperfections. Petre had worn his defect as a scar,… — Rae Z. Ryans Copy Share
Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface. — Christophe Agou Copy Share Image
I'm of that generation of Jews still deeply influenced by the Holocaust. Certainly the notion that the state power to kill can be subject… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“Yes, the hermitage is underground--miles beneath the surface of Antarctica. And yes, Ike refers to it as unten--literally 'under' or 'below.' But, hello, it's 'hyperborean'--of or relating to the arctic, frigid, very cold. The opposite of infernally hot. Well, what if it's WAY underground down near the inner core of the earth, where it's like 10,000 degrees? Well, what if… — Mark Leyner Copy Share
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Her father...was all front to back in his transparency: what you saw was what there was, there was nothing clandestine in his character, and those few aspects that were disguised or hidden were that way because they were his closely kept emotions. When on those rare occasions he allowed his emotions to be seen, their appearance was all the more… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share
The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always. — Meredith Hall Copy Share Image
“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to the Earth. But man has only to sink beneath… — Jaques Barzun Cousteau Copy Share Image
Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found. — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
