The Take My Meaning Dictionary of Quips and Quotations

“The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people. “

Louise Brown, English Author

“I’m big on Aston Villa because the name is just so sweet. It sounds like a lovely spa.”

Tom Hanks, American Actor

“Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title .”

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Author

“It’s a working title.”

Jeremy Piven (as Ari Gold), American Actor, in Entourage

“Linguistics will become a science when linguists begin standing on one another’s shoulders instead of on one another’s toes.”

Stephen R. Anderson, American Linguist

“All countries live by myths.”

Bernard Cornwell, English Author

“I don’t care what they say. London Fog is a great name.”

Robert Morse (as Bertram Cooper) in Mad Men

“Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.”

Mariska Hargitay, American Actress

“You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.”

Walt Disney, American Icon