Umberto Eco Quotes

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

Umberto Eco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CommunityMeColleaguesLookBeing

I remember a nightfall from childhood, far from home and off the known track: I'd been walking with some older boys, but they ran off and left me, and as darkness hurried in, I suddenly realised how far from home I was.

John Burnside

HomeDarknessChildhoodMeWalking

When you get to Heaven, God points you to the all-Entenmann's craft service and says, 'You can eat all you want, and you don't gain any weight.'

Max Greenfield

GodServiceYouHeavenWantCraft

I balance my meals. I have never been a big dessert guy.

Robert Herjavec

BalanceNeverDessertMealsBigGuy

Let me tell you, the life of a C list celebrity is pretty sweet. If I want to go to an Applebee's, all I have to do is, literally, walk in the door. They seat me as soon as the other people ahead of me are seated.

Michael Ian Black

LifeWalkPeopleMeDoorSweet

One place I haven't made it to - mainly because it's so far away - is Australia, so I'd love to go there. I've heard great things about Australia and New Zealand.

Stephen Pagliuca

LoveGreatGreat ThingsFar AwayNew

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

Tom Goodman-Hill

WorkHard WorkMyselfCloudsCamera

You better be on the gas every day.

Robby Gordon

DayBetterYouEvery DayGasEvery

Now the advantage is all with the hitters.

Rogers Hornsby

NowAdvantageHitters

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

Russell Hoban

FatherSonHistoryGreatTimePast

I don't have any premonitions. I don't have any supernatural powers. I just have a typical woman's intuition, and I go with that.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

WomanGoIntuitionJustSupernatural

It was a great time, and I liked the guys. I liked getting up every morning and being a cop.

Dennis Farina

MorningGreatTimeUpGreat Time

In filming, you're waiting - you're waiting for lights, you're waiting for people to set things up - and when you're not waiting, you're repeating.

Colin Firth

WaitingPeopleYouLightsUpThings

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