Peter Brandt Quotes

My reign has been anything but traditional. Let's not start now, shall we? ~ Courtney Brandt

Men and parts were waiting when they docked. ~ Ralph Brandt

Am I supposed to say something interesting here? ~ Michael Brandt

At that idea, I grinned. Queen of England. Single mother. What would my opposition say about that? ~ Courtney Brandt

Castro inhaled again, blew out enough smoke to announce a pope. ~ Harry Brandt

She had been shot once, point-blank in the chest, from five, maybe six feet away. ~ Kathy Brandt

I can neither confirm nor deny details of any such operation without Secretary's approval ~ William Brandt

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~ Anthony Brandt

When the mind is quiet, your concentration is increased and you experience inner peace. ~ Brandt Legg

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two. ~ Brandt Legg

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried! ~ Bill Brandt

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot. ~ Bill Brandt

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when I know there are footprints on the moon ~ Paul Brandt

Undaunted, nature would soon forget the passage of man and return to its routine, tireless and eternal. ~ Michael Jason Brandt

Don't tell me the sky's the limit ... ~ Paul Brandt

Jesus wants to give you peace. ~ Henry R Brandt

Time's a funny thing ~ Brandt Legg

My name is Brandt Cross, and my life used to be seven kinds of fucked up ... Now it's eight ... ~ Jus Accardo

Hall nodded as he skimmed the manuscript of Gaines' upcoming book, The Future of the Past. ~ Brandt Legg

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others. ~ Willy Brandt

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

I can tell you, we had a lot of fun at 'Breaking Bad.' You have to. ~ Betsy Brandt

I'd like to be on the next 'Six Feet Under,' whatever that is. ~ Betsy Brandt

A good nude photograph can be erotic, but certainly not sentimental or pornographic. ~ Bill Brandt

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport. ~ Bill Brandt

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

Man's brain is, after all, the greatest natural resource. ~ Karl Brandt

Just because anger or hate is present does not mean that the capacity to love & accept is not there; love is always with you. ~ Brandt Legg

There's no human remedy for sin. ~ Henry R Brandt

The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time. ~ Bill Brandt

Myron? My brain screeches to a halt. I've transferred to a school where they name kids Myron?! ~ Courtney Brandt

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war. ~ Karl Brandt

My station has barely recovered from the massacre, and we have not held my formal coronation, not to mention the fact I am only eighteen years of age and have no parent present. How on earth do people expect me to find a husband in all of this nonsense? ~ Courtney Brandt

Brandt would need to do something. Something drastic. Something like ... tell him the truth. Fucking hell, Brandt hated telling the truth. ~ Abigail Roux

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

Your walk with God does not depend on people, places, things or events. ~ Henry R Brandt

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

There are a million ways to create. It's not always typing words, painting pictures, or acting in a play. And you don't get to decide which is correct. ~ Brandt Legg

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

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare. ~ Bill Brandt

An ebook is like having a photo of a dead loved one. It's convenient to look at and it will stir the mind, but it doesn't breathe. ~ Brandt Legg

In television, you can leave so many things open-ended. For everything you wrap up, you can open another one or two. ~ Michael Brandt

What your soul needs is a check up. ~ Henry R Brandt

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it. ~ Willy Brandt

I like 'Mad Men,' and I think 'The Killing' is pretty great too. I like 'Brothers & Sisters.' ~ Betsy Brandt

Did Jonathan not realize that sometimes a girl didn't want to be honorable? That sometimes young women had the same desires and needs as young men? ~ Courtney Brandt

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

So you st that charge, and then put yourself right smack in the middle of the blast radius?" Brandt asked with what might have been open admiration. Remy nodded curtly. "Marry me," Brandt requested with unholy glee.
Remy cracked a smile and Carl laughed softly at Brandt's side. Shawn and Nikolaus both sat motionless, staring at Remy disbelievingly. Thiago rolled his eyes and cleared is throat. Nothing Remy did surprised him now. ~ Abigail Roux

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

When I read both pilots for 'Breaking Bad' and the 'Michael J. Fox Show,' I turned to my husband in real life, and I'm like, 'That is an amazing script.' ~ Betsy Brandt

After a thousand watercolors you will find you have fallen in love with paper and paint. ~ Rex Brandt

Never tell me the sky is the limit when the zoning code clearly imposes a stricter limit. ~ Paul Brandt

And who exactly are you supposed to be, the Queen of England? ~ Courtney Brandt

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

Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features. ~ Rex Brandt

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

More powerful than armies and police, stronger than guns and bombs, words are what change the world, and that is why they're always a threat to those that rule with corrupt ways ~ Brandt Legg

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

I love opening night, and I love doing plays. But one of my favorite parts about doing a play or working on a new play is rehearsal. ~ Betsy Brandt

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

Fear is nothing you should voluntarily enter into. When fear arises naturally, you pay attention to it as a warning, but never go looking for a reason to be afraid. ~ Brandt Legg

Being white also put Drast in the minority, but in 2098 skin color wasn't the issue it had once been for the world. There had been much blending. The majority of people were a varied and lovely light shade of brown. The ~ Brandt Legg

And now we both blushed, because things like changing one's garments should not be discussed among a Queen and one of her subjects. ~ Courtney Brandt

You're just a prayer away from a change of heart. ~ Henry R Brandt

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

The heart of the problem is a problem with the heart. ~ Henry R Brandt

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

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

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

My environment can give me relief from sin and tension, only the Lord can cure it. ~ Henry R Brandt

If it's sin, that's good news! Sin is the simplest thing in the world to deal with. ~ Henry R Brandt

One has to keep in mind the countless human tragedies that played out in these days. Through the middle of a city, where several thousand connections existed daily, despite administrative division, the concrete pillars were driven into the border, which was expanded like a Chinese wall. ~ Willy Brandt

Biblical counseling is listening to a person long enough until you hear a violation of scripture. ~ Henry R Brandt

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

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

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

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

How could there ever be a real moral reason for war?' Harper would ask rhetorically. 'It always comes down to someone's greed. History is populated by the distorted tyrants and corrupt businessmen willing to trade a cup full of blood for a purse filled with gold. ~ Brandt Legg

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

Every book Runit hadn't written haunted him, so he understood about the mental takeover from the craft of writing. Those unwritten books, locked inside a writer's head, make an inescapable noise, like murmurs from conversation one can't quite make out blended loudly with paper pages blowing in a disturbing wind. ~ Brandt Legg

God's children have a limitless supply of the fruit of the Spirit. ~ Henry R Brandt

Denny and McDaniel go into the percussion room and grab a bizarre metal contraption. Denny lifts it over his head and I give him a strange look, to which he responds like I'm a five year old, "Carr-i-er. ~ Courtney Brandt

Once more for Britain," I said to the empty room. I might not be the Queen everyone wanted me to be, but I was intelligent and fully capable of breaking the code. ~ Courtney Brandt

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

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

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

Knowing the truth is never about faith. It is about remembering, accepting, and, most importantly, it is about living. If we live as if we know there is more, then there will be more. ~ Brandt Legg

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

I'd disagree with the characterisations of him as competitive (which I think was just misinterpretation of his ambition) or secretive (which I think is more about wanting to protect his team and his customers). Jeff [Bezos] could much more accurately be described as a naively optimistic geek than a calculating megalomaniac. ~ Richard L. Brandt

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

Jetzt sind wir in einer Situation, in der wieder zusammenwächst, was zusammengehört."

("Now we are in a situation where what belongs together, will grow back together.")

Berlin radio interview, November 10, 1989 [the day after the de facto abolition of intra-German border controls by the East German government] ~ Willy Brandt

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brandt was in a room full of people all looking at him as he was about to get naked...When Brandt's cock sprung free, there was a gasp from all corners of the room.
Nestor fanned himself. Bryce's mouth made a perfect "O" in exactly the right shape to fit over a beautiful, plump cockhead. Donnelly just stared, blinked hard, and stared some more.
"What? You guys all look like you've never seen a dick before," Brandt said, a touch of defensive anger in his voice.
"Honey, I thought I had, but I have been most cruelly misled," answered Bryce.
--Dressing room incident #3 ~ Xavier Mayne

Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art form. The emphasis has generally been on capturing the drama of wild animals IN ACTION, on capturing that dramatic single moment, as opposed to simply animals in the state of being. ~ Nick Brandt

The vital elements are often momentary, change-sent things ... a gleam of light on water, a trail of smoke from a passing train, a cat crossing the threshold. Sometimes they are a matter of luck, sometimes of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that you have seen. It is usually some incidental detail that heightens the effect of a picture, stressing a pattern, deepening the sense of atmosphere. ~ Bill Brandt