“Cecile was teaching in Berkeley and I was [at Livermore]. He probably had, could have had, some influence on Teller, [for] Teller was quite generous in allowing me one whole semester off to be at Berkeley to work on something and also a semester off at the Institute for Advanced Study. Then I won the Gravity Research Foundation first prize.”
Bryce S. DeWitt“We poor tellers of tales have our moments too, it seems. Like great generals sitting upon horses upon the tops of hills and throwing troops into the arena, we throw the little soldier words into our battles.”
Sherwood Anderson, A Story Teller's Story“It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller does but provide him with the stimuli.”
Melville Davisson Post, Uncle Abner: The Doomdorf Mystery“The distance between an honest Christian mystic and a fortune-teller is sometimes less than half a whisper. Less than a pot of tea or the space between two book covers.”
Cherie Priest, Maplecroft“Take a seat, Charlie,” he said. “I’ll kill you in a few minutes. It’ll be good for you.”
Frederick Weisel, Teller“If they’re together long enough, every couple has one conversation over and over. This was ours.”
Frederick Weisel, Teller“Thus the 'fortune-teller' is trying to foresee something that is really quite unforeseeable. This is characteristic of all forms of foreseeing. And precisely because what they 'see' is so vague, it is hard to repudiate fortune-tellers' claims.”
Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World