Broadway Quotes

[Ellski]

Posted: 10/15/08 at 10:37pm

For a school assignment we all have to find quotes that describe us. I really wanted to do something from a broadway show. What I have so far are...
All that’s known is trust in what is written. Wars are made and somehow that is wisdom.

Too much sanity may be madness; but maddest of all... to see life as it is and not as it should be

Pretty is what changes
What the eye arranges.

Please tell me which one you like the best. Also if you can think of any other awesome quotes then please post them and include what show they come from. Thanks!

[Paul W. Thompson]

Posted: 10/15/08 at 11:21pm

Look, I made a hat
Where there never was a hat. SITPWG

And the immortal, from ACL

All I ever wanted
was the music and the mirror
And the chance to dance
for you.

[gilvisto]

Posted: 10/16/08 at 4:52am

Allow me to start with a slew of Sondheim:
"When you know what you want then you go and you find it and you take it." -Into the Woods
"Everybody's got the right to their dreams" - Assassins
"Stop worrying where you're going, move on." -Sunday
"Saying someday we'd send 'em reeling... someday just began." -Merrily We Roll Along
"As Papa would say, you're hot and you're not, get ready to bounce." -Bounce
"Alone is a alone, not alive" - Company
"A person like Robert doesn't have the good things in life, but he doesn't have the bad things... but he doesn't have the good things." -Company

And some of the others (first ones to come to mind)
"It's not impossible." - Boeing Boeing
"Impossible things are happening every day." - Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
"Always look on the bright side of life." - Spamalot
"Grey skies are gonna clear up. Put on a happy face!" -Bye Bye Birdie
"Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot for one brief shining moment known as Camelot." -Camelot
"If you spend your days piling up things for tomorrow, you will find yourself looking back on a lot of empty yesterdays." - The Music Man
"This is my quest: to follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far. To fight for the right without question or pause: to be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause." - Man of La Mancha
"There's no business like show business... yesterday they told you would not go far, that night you open and there you are. Next day on their dressing room they've hung a star: Let's go on with the show!" - Annie Get Your Gun
"You're a special kind of people known as show people, you live in a world of your own." -Curtains
"They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway... they say there's always magic in the air." - Smokey Joe's Cafe
"Ain't no medicine known to man can make you feel good like the Doctor can... it's Doctor Jazz" -Jelly's Last Jam
"Safe, sane, and single." - Five Guys named Mo
"Stop the world, I wanna get on!" - The Producers
"It's only us, it's only this: forget regret or life is yours to miss." - Rent
"It's all a circus... razzle dazzle em and they'll make you a star." - Chicago
"It's the rich who are the criminals; someday their wealth will be ours... if they would agree, I would agree!" -Fiddler on the Roof
"Children of Israel are never alone." -Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
"Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind." - Phantom of the Opera (and I actually got that in a fortune cookie the other day... I was amused.)
"This nearly was mine..." -South Pacific
"If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned..." - Les Miserables
"I grow to... pity him. But he has such a love of life..." - Jekyll and Hyde
"The Holocaust happened!" - GUTENBERG! The Musical!
"I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing." - [title of show]
"Nothing is too wonderful to be true." - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"You've gotta have heart!" - Damn Yankees
"I've got music, I've got rhythm, now all I need's a girl to go with 'em..." - Crazy for You

and, the ever-obnoxious red-headed beam of optimism:

"The sun'll come out tomorrow!" - Annie

lol. These were in a random order, it's late and I apologize if my memory skewered a few of them... hope at least a couple help ya out.