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Umberto Eco Quotes

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

Umberto Eco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: italian
Birth: January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016

Topics

Great Flying Direction Find Horror

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

Jim Capaldi

Work Me Writing Titles Off Naming

There is going to be a nuclear arms race in the Middle East if Iran gets a nuclear weapon. And you are going to see it in Egypt, in Turkey, in the Emirates. All of those people will want that.

John Barrasso

People You Want Egypt Will Race

I have no regrets about leaving Barcelona.

Mauro Icardi

Leaving No Regrets Regrets Barcelona

Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced an important literary figure, Willa Cather, as well as an investor said to be the world's second richest man, Warren Buffett.

Stephen Kinzer

Home Man World Said Important Well

I don't want to try to fool people into thinking that I'm something that I'm not.

Sterling K. Brown

Fool People Thinking Want Try

I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again.

Tony Visconti

Work I Am New York Flying Back New

My only day off is the day I pitch.

Roger Clemens

Day Off Only Pitch

There is actually a physical connection between light and our health and wellbeing.

Rogier van der Heide

Health Light Connection Between Our

I like the taste of grass-fed meat. It is chewier, I'll own that... The Argentines make excellent beef that's grass-fed. They've learned how to age it, and they've gotten good at it.

Michael Pollan

Good Age Meat Taste Own Excellent

In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike the bare-faced Oliver Twist effrontery that stands vulnerably before authority, asking for more or better.

Michael Leunig

Calm Better Authority More Asking

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

Mink Stole

School First Out Buy Things Ears

Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.

Peter Dinklage

College Security Everyone Little OK