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Enrico Fermi On Names

Brent — Sat, 22 May 2010 19:54:59 +0000

“Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist”

Enrico Fermi, Italian-American Physicist

Tom Brokaw On Storytelling

Brent — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:58:12 +0000

“It’s all storytelling, you know. That’s what journalism is all about.”

Tom Brokaw, American Journalist

Jim Capaldi On Song Titles

Brent — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:38:05 +0000

“You have to have a strong title. It’s got to say something.”

Jim Capaldi, English Songwriter

Matt Groening On Stories

Brent — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:56:58 +0000

“Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons’ subversive story telling, but there’s another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.”

Matt Groening, American Cartoonist

Catherine Deneuve On Stories

Brent — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:53:20 +0000

“The story is more important to me than the part.”

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

Italo Calvino On Audiences

Brent — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:51:54 +0000

“It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.”

Italo Calvino, Italian Author

Eudora Welty On Stories

Brent — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:49:28 +0000

“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.”

Eudora Welty, American Author

Samuel Goldwyn On Stories

Brent — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:43:47 +0000

“We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.”

Samuel Goldwyn, American Movie Mogul

Susan Brind Morrow On Names

Brent — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:03:42 +0000

“A name is a mirror to catch the soul of a thing.”

Susan Brind Morrow, American Author

William Shenstone On Nicknames

Brent — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:49:56 +0000

“I am thankful that my name is obnoxious to no pun.”

William Shenstone, English Poet and Landscape Architect