Brill's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. In the same way a pebble dropped on a quiet pond sends ripples far out from itself,

Leigh Brill

#3. A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. '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

#5. 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

#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. Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

Jules Laforgue

#9. 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

#10. A song that touched us? Whether attending a concert, listening to the radio, or singing in the shower, there's something about music that can fill us with emotion, from joy to sadness.

Anonymous

#11. I spent a month up in Seattle last fall cowriting and producing with Leo Nash, an old friend of mine, for his band's new album.

Kristen Proby

#12. The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.

Moliere

#13. Guilt wears track shoes. Sprint, marathon, or cross-country, it doesn't matter. It runs tireless to catch you, and it carries a sledgehammer.

Jamie Mason

#14. "Believe in yourself" - that makes sense. You should believe in yourself - you should believe that you're capable of great things - but you would hope that somebody would have some sort of self-awareness.

Timothy Simons

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. This is the only industry where technology advances have increased costs instead of lowering them.

Steven Brill

#18. the healthcare industry spends four times as much on lobbying as the number two Beltway spender, the much-feared military-industrial complex?

Steven Brill

#19. 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

#20. You know, the fact that you were educated in a gun factory kinda shows sometimes,

Brandon Sanderson

#21. Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#22. Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win.

Phil Rizzuto

#23. 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

#24. It's about money: Healthcare is America's largest industry by far, employing a sixth of the country's workforce.

Steven Brill

#25. 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

#26. I grew up close to Melbourne, about two hours outside, on Phillip Island. It's really small; it's kind of a little summer beach town.

Liam Hemsworth

#27. 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

#28. Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#29. No failure is final unless you ratify it.

Richard M. Nixon

#30. 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

#31. Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.

Melody Beattie

#32. 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

#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