Top 33 Brill Quotes
#1. I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't succeded in splicing surveillance equiptment to plants? So get rid of all the flowers. Rocks, too. I don't trust them. Sullen little blebers.
Eoin Colfer
#2. From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.
Hanya Yanagihara
#3. On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang and in-words. It won't be long before 'brill' sounds as dated as 'super' does now. [Uncle Happy, 1990]
Peter O'Donnell
#4. So it was settled, and that was how the Banks family came to live at Number Seventeen, with Mrs. Brill to cook for them,
P.L. Travers
#5. 'The Comeback' is my favorite TV show of all-time because it's just brill. It's Lisa Kudrow's show about what it's like to be an actor on a TV show. She's so amazing on it.
Gillian Jacobs
#6. Every single tune you know from the 1940s until the 1970s was written, arranged, and demoed in the Brill Building. OK, maybe not every song, but writers from Benny Goodman to Lieber & Stoller to Neil Diamond all kept offices there.
Shawn Amos
#7. In the, uh, '30s and '40s, the Brill Building was the hub of, uh, musical activity in Tin Pan Alley in New York City. I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.
Al Kooper
#8. I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself.
Paul Auster
#9. Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.
Johnny Rivers
#10. When it comes to arrogance, power, and lack of accountability, journalists are probably the only people on the planet who make lawyers look good.
Steven Brill
#11. This is the only industry where technology advances have increased costs instead of lowering them.
Steven Brill
#12. His life was focused on each single day. For him each night meant a void, a grave, extinction. The capacity to lay oneself down to die at the end of every day, without thinking anything of it, was something he had not yet acquired.
Robert Musil
#13. America's total healthcare bill for 2014 is $3 trillion. That's more than the next ten biggest spenders combined: Japan, Germany, France, China, the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, Brazil, Spain, and Australia. All that extra money produces no better, and in many cases worse, results.
Steven Brill
#14. In the same way a pebble dropped on a quiet pond sends ripples far out from itself,
Leigh Brill
#15. My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.
Tig Notaro
#16. An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.
Darrell Case
#18. The lump in his throat was evidence of how much, in spite of everything, he still loved her.
Jonathan Franzen
#20. the Dallas Police Department felt that, in Lee Harvey Oswald, it had a good catch.
Jim Bishop
#21. If epigenetic changes caused by trauma such as the Holocaust, or enslavement, can be passed through generations, as researchers have recently found, perhaps some of us are hard-wired to be afraid because our history has taught us that fear is a kind of armor.
Amy Brill
#22. Individual style is the correct balance of knowing who you are, what works fro you, and how to develop your own personality
Giorgio Armani
#23. It was one thing to be attracted to bad boys, something I usually didn't suffer from. It was another to be attracted to bad men. Mad Rogan was a really bad, bad man.
Ilona Andrews
#24. the healthcare industry spends four times as much on lobbying as the number two Beltway spender, the much-feared military-industrial complex?
Steven Brill
#25. Education should not be a competition resulting in winners and losers. Education should be a competition against ignorance, and all should be encouraged to win.
K.A. Brill
#26. Statistically, our family was due for a girl, and I'm not sure the world could handle a female Maddox. All the fight and anger, plus estrogen? Everyone would die." -Travis Maddox
Jamie McGuire
#27. The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do well. Your job as parent is to bring out this quality and cherish it until the day your kids leave home, and then some.
Marlene Targ Brill
#28. More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ... '
Neil Peart
#29. It's about money: Healthcare is America's largest industry by far, employing a sixth of the country's workforce.
Steven Brill
#30. And on the second OOOOOOOO, you picture just a naked glowing green skull that hangs there vibrating gape-mouthed in a prison cell. Or whatever it is you picture.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
#31. 'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.
Dianne Feinstein
#32. Domon would learn; even when a woman needed help, if she did not want it, she made you pay for giving it.
Robert Jordan
#33. This was no peck on the lips. This was a real first kiss, a movie-star-knock-her-socks-off-fireworks-light-up-the-sky kind of kiss.
A girl could live to be a hundred and never forget that kiss.
Carol Fragale Brill
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