#bout

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#aware #hardest #lyrics #make #music

The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890? ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#art #compared #dates #fact #feel

I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#also #bad #came #get #good

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States. ↗

— Terry Southern

#attention #believe #came #first #got

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#assume #believe #care #claim #help

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#concentrated #fact #find #fundamental #ideas

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#egos #elites #masses #really #state

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#audience #being #dynamic #environment #expresses

The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area and some people in Europe have talked about the desirability of the euro becoming an international reserve currency. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#add #area #becoming #currency #desirability

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#album #extended #extended family #family #generally