Harnick Quotes

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

James Patterson

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

Tae Yun Kim

#3. 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

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

Sheldon Harnick

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

Madeleine Urban

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

Miguel Conner

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Sheldon Harnick

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Paul Ince

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Sheldon Harnick

#16. 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

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

Sheldon Harnick

#18. 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

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

Judith Plaskow

#20. 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

#21. I have a lot of unknown songs.

Sheldon Harnick