Burton Richter Quotes

If I panic, everyone else panics.

The sky isn't falling.

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

I don't feel that much fear.

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.

The sky is falling. No, I'm tipping over backwards.

Panic is our great enemy.

It's never too early to panic.

Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.

The fear's as bad as falling.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.

I've never been to the Oscars, but if I was ever invited to the Oscars, I would have this weird paranoia of terrorism. It just feels like The Poseidon Adventure, everyone in their tuxes. Somehow, I feel like the whole time I would be looking for where the nearest exit was, and in a cold sweat about some kind of man-made disaster, like a terrorist strike or something. It seems like such a scary, claustrophobic proposition.

Every cloud engenders not a storm.

Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

In this one terrified moment, my mind couldn’t focus on any of it. “I’ve forgotten everything.” “No, you haven’t.” His voice in the darkness was calm and reassuring. He smoothed back my hair and pressed one of those half kisses to my forehead. “Just relax and focus." “His reasonable words centered me and allowed the gears of logic that ran my life to take over again.

I had an experience a few years ago where I was on a plane in which one of the engines went out. I couldn't even remember my name. I was just repeating the word no over and over.