Umberto Eco Quotes

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

Umberto Eco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

QualityPresentSpecialTasteHigh

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

Jesse Eisenberg

LifeDayYouActingComfortableWay

If we want to be proud to be from a country like America and all the things that we hang our hats on, like diversity, equality, land of the free and home of the brave, it's everybody's responsibility to ensure that everyone in the country is being afforded the same rights.

Megan Rapinoe

HomeResponsibilityDiversityBrave

I've been to so many dos and presentation dinners and TV shows. I've been among all the top stars - soap stars, people from music - it's been brilliant. But I've kept my feet on the ground.

Amir Khan

StarsMusicPeopleFeetBrilliant

Napoleon's plan was for his army to arrive in Egypt not as conquerors but liberators. Landing in Aboukir Bay on July 1, 1798, the French captured Alexandria the next day, overcoming the surprised Mamelukes - the despotic local rulers - with a combination of modern artillery and infantry tactics.

Tom Reiss

DayOvercomingArmyPlanEgyptJuly

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

Loretta Young

BelieveYouI BelieveConscience

I always had the fantasy of Hollywood and Los Angeles and the beach, not realizing that Hollywood was so very far from the beach.

Bonnie McKee

BeachLos AngelesHollywoodFantasy

Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.

Bob Graham

WarMeYearMoreAfghanistanBeing

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

Arthur Schopenhauer

ManThoughtsFaceInterestingMouth

I wish I could think of a suitable name for the kind of writing I do.

Phyllis A. Whitney

WritingThinkNameWishKindI Wish

Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done.

Peter Thiel

RestaurantYouFindDoneStarting

Hopefully I'll continue to have the success I've had.

Tiger Woods

SuccessContinueHadHopefully

What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience.

Timothy Noah

ExperienceBelieveAdviceWorthCome

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