Stephen Sondheim Quotes

I have never been over fond of scenes anywhere.

I hate bacon. And sunshine, as my friends like to point out.

I'm not a big fan of any video, especially my own. In a word, I hated the Hall & Oates videos.

The Saracens … whom we never found desirable either as friends or as enemies.

I've never been a fan of Chris Spence.

The relationship with Pep wasn't a very good one.

Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were enemies if anything. He hated me, and I knew it, and he knew I knew it. I didn't like him, but I needed him, needed him to tell me something that none of the others could or would.

Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.

For some reason New York is the epicentre for people who hate me. Maybe this is another reason why I left New York but I get more hatred directed towards me there than any other place.

I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.

When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

But Snape always seemed to hate me so much.

Then little writings and recordings that thankfully continue to come up. I'm in this kind of wonderful, kind of awkward, off-putting, and strange position where there's nothing I want to do more than continue to make music, but the ways that I do things are not in tune with how I can do them commercially.

Hate can be passionate or disengaged; it can come from dislike but also from fear.

The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still to be conceived.

They really hate you, yes they do. They hate everyone, how 'bout you?

You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.

I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they had their fiftieth anniversary, andThe Baltimore Sun called me and said, ‘What did you think of your high school?’ And I said, ‘They discouraged every interest I ever had.’ And I saw that in print.

I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

Remember what I told you. If they hated me, they will hate you.