Top 100 Brandt's Quotes
#1. At the very least he should have to suffer somehow, right? I mean, months of being sick, being hormonal, being fat, being so desperately horny and then wanting to chop off Brandt's hand or his dick if either so much as touched me again.
Lorelei James
#2. Brandt certainly didn't see what the big deal was. Things caught fire; it wasn't always Brandt's fault.
Abigail Roux
#3. Yes, things catch fire," Shawn ground out as he switched the safety off and cocked the gun threateningly, letting it dig even further into Brandt's cheek. "But hotel rooms do not just catch fire! Automobiles do not just catch fire! And my favorite pair of sweatpants do not just catch fire!
Abigail Roux
#4. Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
Anthony Brandt
#5. Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.
Rex Brandt
#6. I'd like to be on the next 'Six Feet Under,' whatever that is.
Betsy Brandt
#7. When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.
Michael Brandt
#8. Physical bookstores will become ever-nicer places to be. They are going to have more sofas, better lattes, nicer people working there. Good bookstores are the community centres of the 20th century.
Richard L. Brandt
#9. When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the camera was seeing. I interfered very little, and the lens produced anatomical images and shapes which my eyes had never observed.
Bill Brandt
#10. Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.
Willy Brandt
#11. We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.
Rex Brandt
#12. Myron, all six feet of super cuteness, comes forward. He smiles and I almost die, because he has one adorable dimple. Instead of getting embarrassed about his first name, he offers his hand and says, "Call me McDaniel.
Courtney Brandt
#13. Laura Brandt knew all about coming out of a suspension chamber.
Peter F. Hamilton
#14. One figure physically threw a fat, balding man out of the clinic. The fat man landed in a heap. He was blubbering, while the other figure walked back toward the clinic. "You don't understand. I have to have my dilaudda. It's the only thing that works, really!" said the fat man.
Brandt Trebor
#15. Myron? My brain screeches to a halt. I've transferred to a school where they name kids Myron?!
Courtney Brandt
#16. It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.
Bill Brandt
#17. If it's sin, that's good news! Sin is the simplest thing in the world to deal with.
Henry R Brandt
#18. But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover this, for unless he finds what it is that excites him, what it is that calls forth at once an emotional response, he is unlikely to achieve his best work.
Bill Brandt
#19. My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.
Nick Brandt
#20. As there are six kinds of metals, so I have also shown with reliable experiments... that there are also six kinds of half-metals: a new half-metal, namely Cobalt regulus in addition to Mercury, Bismuth, Zinc, and the reguluses of Antimony and Arsenic.
Georg Brandt
#22. I really believe you get what you're supposed to get.
Betsy Brandt
#23. My environment can give me relief from sin and tension, only the Lord can cure it.
Henry R Brandt
#25. It was difficult, but it was also rewarding. When you have a chance to see kids get better, everything makes it all worth it. All I wanted was to try to make a difference in my life and have a legacy in some way, but for something I had done in someone else's life.
Paul Brandt
#27. For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.
Betsy Brandt
#28. I can neither confirm nor deny details of any such operation without Secretary's approval
William Brandt
#29. After you leave a show - any show, but for me especially after 'Breaking Bad' - you hope for a job to help soften the blow now that you don't have this amazing job anymore, and you hope that it's good.
Betsy Brandt
#30. I didn't think he was a very 'nice' person,' says Chichilnisky [about Jeff Bezos]. 'I liked him, but he was not warm. I'm not criticising him, not a bit. It was like he could be a Martian for all I knew. A well-meaning, nice Martian.
Richard L. Brandt
#31. Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future.
Bill Brandt
#32. A penis is a penis, but a hard-on is more like a message you send to other people. It's a desire, not a body part."
Brandt swiveled his chair around to face Donnelly, "'It's a desire, not a body part'? What kind of fucked-up angry feminist book did you get that out of?"
--Donnelly & Brandt
Xavier Mayne
#33. It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.
Bill Brandt
#34. I think a reason why TV is exciting and getting so much better is because we [authors] get to play off of an actor's strengths and challenge them on their weaknesses. On a feature [film], you don't necessarily get to do that. You hope that they cast the right guy, who comes in and plays your part.
Michael Brandt
#35. My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that I'm on it - he says that 'Breaking Bad' is his favorite show even though he's never seen it. It's really great that he says that, because it makes me look like mother of the year.
Betsy Brandt
#36. Perhaps it is his goofy laugh and silly grin that made people underestimate him; certainly his playfulness contributed to that perception. At their wedding reception, Jeff [Bezos] and MacKenzie provided an outdoor adult play area that included water balloons.
Richard L. Brandt
#37. That's your story? And you're sticking to it?" Brandt asked. "That you're suggesting a mission that is super dangerous, but Lopez could get us out of it on unicycles? Driven into the sea?
Carolyn McCray
#39. Walls in people's heads are sometimes more durable than walls made of concrete blocks.
Willy Brandt
#40. Everybody - even huge movie stars - have downs. That's just how it is. The work ebbs and flows. My manager and I were saying, 'Let's remember that in 2013 we were soooo busy.' So whenever it is that we're not, maybe it'll come back again. Maybe it won't. But you've gotta love the ride.
Betsy Brandt
#41. Hey," Pavlicek held on, "what's the most bullshit word in the English language." "Closure." "Give that man a cigar," Pavlicek said, then hung up.
Harry Brandt
#42. I like 'Mad Men,' and I think 'The Killing' is pretty great too. I like 'Brothers & Sisters.'
Betsy Brandt
#43. Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.
Bill Brandt
#44. I often said that when they put me in jail in 1981 it was not the FBI's intent, but they saved my life. They only have seven days in a week, and by the time I went to jail I was drinking eight.
Charles Brandt
#45. I want my images to achieve two things in this regard - to be an elegy to a world that is tragically vanishing, to make people see what beauty is disappearing. Also, to try and show that animals are sentient creatures equally as worthy of life as humans.
Nick Brandt
#46. Anger is inside you, revealed by an outside source.
Henry R Brandt
#47. I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.
Bill Brandt
#48. The heart of the problem is a problem with the heart.
Henry R Brandt
#50. It's remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.
Brandt Legg
#51. Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.
Willy Brandt
#52. You dont have a marriage problem, you have a sin problem.
Henry R Brandt
#53. You can manage your sin, but that's not repentance.
Henry R Brandt
#54. Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.
Bill Brandt
#55. Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!
Bill Brandt
#56. The only things that scared Brandt were water and fire extinguishers.
Abigail Roux
#57. Men and parts were waiting when they docked.
Ralph Brandt
#58. And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
Bill Brandt
#61. If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.
Bill Brandt
#62. I've never had a price on my head, I wonder how much I'd be worth?"
"A pinecone or two, I'd wager," Shawn murmured.
Abigail Roux
#63. In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.
Betsy Brandt
#64. You may buy from me in your own language, but sell to me in mine.
Willy Brandt
#65. Did you take a vow of poverty or something?"
"This is a housedress, Malloy," she said, indignant again. "I was cleaning when you came. I gave my other clothes away because I got some new ones. From my mother."
"Did your mother take a vow of poverty?
Victoria Thompson
#66. This isn't high school," I said, eyeing him playfully. "You're way out of your depth.
Penelope Douglas
#67. Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.
Bill Brandt
#69. In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.
Bill Brandt
#70. My name is Brandt Cross, and my life used to be seven kinds of fucked up ... Now it's eight ...
Jus Accardo
#71. The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal to his own interests will he produce a work of distinction.
Bill Brandt
#72. In features, one of the goals is to have the audience walk out, fully satisfied. In today's world, it's maybe wanting a sequel.
Michael Brandt
#73. Brandt and a couch-or worse, an empty master bedroom-were a very bad combo. He morphed from vaguely risque fling to bad-boy octopus man whenever he was in the vicinity of any marginally promising flat surface.
Diana Peterfreund
#74. The meat's so tough that it got up off the plate and beat the shit out of the coffee, which was too weak to defend itself.
Harry Brandt
#75. Finding relief in your problem is fine, but it will not cure the problem.
Henry R Brandt
#76. I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.
Bill Brandt
#77. Never tell me the sky is the limit when the zoning code clearly imposes a stricter limit.
Paul Brandt
#78. A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
Bill Brandt
#79. Brandt would need to do something. Something drastic. Something like ... tell him the truth. Fucking hell, Brandt hated telling the truth.
Abigail Roux
#80. Wo Hunger herrscht, ist auf die Dauer kein Friede."
("Where there is hunger, there cannot be lasting peace.)
Speech before the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 1973
Willy Brandt
#81. In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.
Rex Brandt
#83. All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.
Rex Brandt
#84. God's children have a limitless supply of the fruit of the Spirit.
Henry R Brandt
#85. It was a problem that needed squaring away and I squared it away for them. By now it seemed like it was something I was doing all my life. If you count my father sending me out to beat up other boys so he could win beer bets, maybe it was. Evidently
Charles Brandt
#86. Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.
Willy Brandt
#87. I feel 'Breaking Bad' - maybe everybody says this about their show - I feel like this show is so special that I don't 'know' that I necessarily really know what it's like to do a regular show.
Betsy Brandt
#88. Yet sometimes the world judges females by a different standard and seeks to punish them unjustly.
Victoria Thompson
#89. It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.
Willy Brandt
#90. And as the most powerful forces of Nature are the invisible forces, so we find that the most powerful forces of man are his invisible forces, his spiritual force,
Brandt Smith
#91. TV is gratifying in the long-term. We [writers] find ourselves knowing who we can go to for a laugh, or who we can go to for a good emotional moment, and then milking those things.
Michael Brandt
#92. The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.
Rex Brandt
#93. She had been shot once, point-blank in the chest, from five, maybe six feet away.
Kathy Brandt
#94. It'd be great to do some other TV. 'Breaking Bad' is definitely my home, but I'd love to have a nice hiatus gig, like a recurring role. Or to do a good film. I'd like to do a Woody Allen movie. I really didn't have a plan, and that's okay with me.
Betsy Brandt
#95. The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills.
Anthony Brandt
#96. Somebody had angrily scrawled DOPE HOUSE with a broad Sharpie above the apartment 6G peephole in the Truman Houses.
"The quality goes in before the name goes on," the CSU tech standing next to Billy said before entering the scene.
Harry Brandt
#97. Working at Amazon was not just a job - it was part of a visionary quest, something to give higher meaning to their lives.
Richard L. Brandt
#98. Man's brain is, after all, the greatest natural resource.
Karl Brandt
#99. No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.
Bill Brandt
#100. The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story
Brandt Legg
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