Robert Morse On Product Names

2009 November 30
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“I don’t care what they say. London Fog is a great name.”

Robert Morse (as Bertram Cooper) in Mad Men

Mariska Hargitay On Chocolate

2009 November 10
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“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

Walt Disney On Place

2009 November 9
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“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

Galileo Galilei On Wine

2009 November 8
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“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”

Galileo Galilei, Italian Astronomer

W. C. Fields On Restaurants

2009 November 8
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“Never eat at a place called ‘Moms’, but if the only other place in town has a sign that says ‘Eats’, go back to Moms.”

W. C. Fields, American Comedian

Fernand Point On Food

2009 November 8
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“If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.”

Fernand Point, French Restaurateur

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin On Food

2009 November 8
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“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French Epicure

Ursula Le Guin On Storytelling

2009 November 7
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“The story – from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace – is one of the basic tools invented by the human mind, for the purpose of gaining understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”

Ursula K. Le  Guin, American Author

Isak Dinesen On Storytelling

2009 November 7
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“To be a person is to have a story to tell.”

Karen Blixen (writing under the pen name Isak Dinesen), Danish Author

Robert McAfee Brown On Storytelling

2009 November 7
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“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.”

Robert McAfee Brown, American Writer