Richard Snow > Quotes

“When he reached middle age … it seemed that we were going to witness an all-too-familiar process - the conversion of the tired artist into the tired businessman. When in 1955 we heard that Disney had opened an amusement park under his own name, it appeared certain that we could not look forward to anything new from Mr. Disney. We were quite wrong. He had, instead, created his masterpiece.”
― Richard Snow, Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World

“The most beautiful things in the world,” Ford said a quarter century later, “are those from which all excess weight has been eliminated.” The car he was working on would weigh five hundred pounds.”
― Richard Snow, I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford

“The present is a bully, always making us think the molten moment we inhabit is the most alarming ever, while the past tends to slip into that specious category of “simpler times.”
― Richard Snow, Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World

“But people keep outgrowing their outgrowing,”
― Richard Snow, Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World

“A messmate before a shipmate, a shipmate before a stranger, a stranger before a dog, but a dog before a soldier.”
― Richard Snow, Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation