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Quotes About Teller

Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.
~ Penn Jillette
But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.
~ Kate Morton
Einstein preferred to review a letter to the President in person. Teller therefore delivered Szilard to Peconic, probably on Sunday, July 30, in his sturdy 1935 Plymouth.1183 "I entered history as Szilard's chauffeur," Teller aphorizes the experience.1184 They found the Princeton laureate in old clothes and slippers. Elsa Einstein served tea.
~ Richard Rhodes
Teller told me that the fission bomb was all well and good and, essentially, was now a sure thing. In reality, the work had hardly begun. Teller likes to jump to conclusions. He said that what we really should think about was the possibility of igniting deuterium by a fission weapon—the hydrogen bomb.
~ Richard Rhodes
That I was named to head the [Theoretical] division," Bethe comments, "was a severe blow to Teller, who had worked on the bomb project almost from the day of its inception and considered himself, quite rightly, as having seniority over everyone then at Los Alamos, including Oppenheimer.
~ Richard Rhodes
Busloads of visitors from Los Alamos and beyond had begun arriving at Compañia Hill, the viewing site twenty miles northwest of Zero, at 0200. Ernest Lawrence was there, Hans Bethe, Teller, Serber, Edwin McMillan, James Chadwick come to see what his neutron was capable of and a crowd of other men, including Trinity staff no longer needed down on the plain.
~ Richard Rhodes
Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge that has been shared.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
In the early days of the project, Teller was concerned that the intense heat of a nuclear explosion would set fire to the atmosphere and kill every living thing on earth. A
~ Eric Schlosser
In Western dream interpretation, it's often connected to psychotherapy and looking at the personality and what's going on in your life. In Eastern dream telling, many times there's this idea of a special gift. And without this gift, you could study and study, but you'd never really become an effective dream teller.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I am not a qualified historian, but rather a teller of stories from history.
~ Princess Michael of Kent
Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.
~ Douglas Wilson
One of Teller's valuable insights is that pedestal-building creates the illusion of progress rather than actual progress itself.
~ Annie Duke
Australian Aborigines say that the big stories — the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life — are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush.
~ Robert Moss
Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.
~ Sandra Dallas
So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!
~ Brian Jacques
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~ Astro Teller
The teller has no responsibility to make the listener believe in the truth. Each must take the words and make them their own. No one can do this for another.
~ Sara Gran
Szilard encouraged me to apply for a postdoc position at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, though he knew I might work on nuclear weapons eventually. My job interview with Teller was both stimulating and unnerving; at the end of it, I suspected Teller understood my thesis better than I did. It was also terrifying; I had no warning who would interview me.
~ Gregory Benford
If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds.
~ Astro Teller
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
~ W. G. Sebald
I am Gabriel, the messenger, the teller of astonishing truths.
~ Sonya Hartnett
In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an associate director
~ John Gofman
If anyone wants a hole in the ground, nuclear explosives can make big holes
~ Edward Teller
Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.
~ D. H. Lawrence