Top 16 Richard Brandt Quotes

#1. I'm not getting up in the helicopter. I have a premonition that I'm going to get killed in a helicopter crash.

Vic Morrow

#2. It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.

Norman Wisdom

#3. Every constitution ... , and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is anact of force, and not of right.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. You have the energy when you're a kid to really fight for rights - that's why kids make great soldiers, right?

Milla Jovovich

#5. 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

#6. Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.

George Gallup

#7. 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

#8. It's an addictive thing. It's not so much I like to go win, but it's a rush.

Corbin Bernsen

#9. In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music.

Richard L. Brandt

#10. The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.

John Dryden

#11. My most vivid memories of those times weren't the actual nuts and bolts, but just pleasant times sitting with Jack [Kirby] in his studio, going over the pages and looking out the window at my kids playing in his swimming pool .

Mike Royer

#12. What clouds may wet the gaze without hope of emptiness within us?

Sorin Cerin

#13. It is incredible how fear is built into you, by your parents and others surrounding you. You're so innocent in the beginning; you don't know.

Marina Abramovic

#14. Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#15. 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

#16. 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

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