Harnick Quotes

#1. I like editing. Generally, you work under the assumption that everything can be shorter. I like to see if I can reconstruct a sentence. I find that enjoyable work.

Sheldon Harnick

#2. I have a lot of unknown songs.

Sheldon Harnick

#3. Love was not something that people married for generally in those days. They married for security. They married for economic reasons, you know, companionship - but not love.

Sheldon Harnick

#4. For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.

Judith Plaskow

#5. A higher rate of vibration always destroys the lower rate of vibration. If we have negative things that we don't want, we need a goal in higher order of vibration. The thing you hate is yours and the thing you love is also yours. If it's not in your physical world, it's present in your mental world.

Hina Hashmi

#6. I feel in my own life I've made many mistakes. I've failed in many directions.

Sheldon Harnick

#7. As far as I remember, there was no actual lyric written to that.At the very beginning of "Fiddler on the Roof," there's a violin solo, an unaccompanied violin solo.

Sheldon Harnick

#8. I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.

Sheldon Harnick

#9. I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!

Sam Ervin

#10. All I can look after is my own farm, serve those who seek when they are sick. I have children to look after so that they will not know what hunger is.
-Istak

F. Sionil Jose

#11. Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby.

Paul Ince

#12. it wasn't that the forty-eight-year-old doctor didn't like people; he simply liked being alone better.

James Patterson

#13. I started writing lyrics out of desperation. I was broke and wondering where my next job, my next meal was coming from, although I had had several successful revue songs on Broadway.

Sheldon Harnick

#14. When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

Sheldon Harnick

#15. I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.

Muhammad Ali

#16. Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#17. Jesus says, "Do not look here, do not look there, for the Kingdom of Heaven is within you.

Miguel Conner

#18. Subtle? How is getting down on your knees and begging subtle?" "I could make it subtle,

Madeleine Urban

#19. Where you learn things, really, is watching it in front of an audience.

Sheldon Harnick

#20. The whole world is festering with unhappy souls: The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles' Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch; and I don't like anybody very much!

Sheldon Harnick

#21. Look at your life as a patient and a doctor!

Tae Yun Kim