Quotes About Rodgers And Hammerstein

#1. One thing he had to give her credit for, she'd never called it a Relationship.
"What is it then, hey," he'd asked once.
"A secret," with her small child's smile, which like Rodgers and Hammerstein in 3/4 time rendered Profane fluttery and gelatinous.

Thomas Pynchon

#2. I've never met a Mormon I didn't like. They're really nice people. They're so Disney. They're so Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Trey Parker

#3. Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories.

Harvey Weinstein

#4. 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

#5. In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns, which so insinuated themselves into the ear of the Eisenhower-era listener that they became the liturgical music for the American mid-century.

Richard Corliss

#6. 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

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

Stephen Sondheim

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

James A. Michener

#11. Not being a natural songwriter ... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in a musical family. My dad got to sing songs by some of the greatest writers of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Bonnie Raitt

#12. Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.

Art Garfunkel

#13. After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

Stephen Sondheim

#14. She can throw a whirling dervish out of whirl.

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#15. Better foolish and honest than clever and false.

Paula Brackston

#16. Cricket is great, but I'm not as comfortable with everything else that goes with it.

Andrew Flintoff

#17. The music and lyrics of Rodgers & Hammerstein connect seamlessly. Singing those beautiful songs was a joyous experience for me, and one that I will never forget.

Julie Andrews

#18. God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.

Bill Hybels

#19. He said the truth is like that of water: it doesn't matter how hard you try to bury it; it'll always find it's way to the surface. It's resilient.

K.A. Tucker

#20. The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had ... his photocopier ...

Humphrey Lyttelton

#21. The biggest thing, and what I told some of the partners in the summit, was me thanking them for their constant support with everything that I've been through the last couple years on and off the court.

Dwyane Wade

#22. Rodgers & Hammerstein shows have a purity of unironic emotion that imprints itself upon people's hearts. They seem to touch our feelings so effortlessly. They have a scope and ambition that's missing from many musicals now.

Mary Rodgers

#23. If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie on or near the Earth's surface. The odd one out is an astronomer, and I am one of that strange breed.

Martin Rees

#24. Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow,
'Till you find your dream.
A dream that will need
All the love you can give,
Every day of your life
For as long as you live

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#25. The spiritual force overcomes all other forces.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

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#27. Love is subsequent to knowledge and to the thing known, for nothing unknown is loved.

Nicholas Of Cusa

#28. The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

Charles Caleb Colton

#29. There are evils . . . that men inflict upon one another, such as tyrannical domination of some of them over others. - THE GUIDE OF THE PERPLEXED, III, 2

Joel L. Kraemer

#30. To Hope and to many more turkey sandwiches." "Thank you," I said, the cold turkey warming my stomach. After

Gretchen Olson