The Take My Meaning Dictionary of Quips and Quotations

“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

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

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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

Italo Calvino, Italian Author

“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

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

Samuel Goldwyn, American Movie Mogul

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

Susan Brind Morrow, American Author

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

William Shenstone, English Poet and Landscape Architect

“It’s nice to have a nickname like Willy: one doesn’t have to grow up.”

William A. Fowler, American Astrophysicist

“Some to the fascination of a name,
Surrender judgment hoodwink’d.”

Williaim Cowper, English Poet