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Umberto Eco Quotes

We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

Umberto Eco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Car Die Speed Grandfather Accept Up

I went out with seven actors in a row. There are problems with that. I've had the really good-looking dramatic actor, and that has its problems. And then I'll go out with the funny guy. It's almost like the funny guy has more to prove.

Jennifer Coolidge

Funny Problems Go Good-Looking Actor

When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.

Melanie Mayron

Writing Loved Photography Teenager

One day for dinner I'll have fish, then the next day chicken, and then I'll have steak. I just try to mix it up all the time. I don't eat the same thing every day.

Andy Murray

Time Day Dinner Fish Every Day Try

My particular pain is that the world of Jewishness that I identify with - the extremely assimilated, educated European and Russian Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries - is lost, and is not mourned enough.

Tom Reiss

Pain World Enough Lost Educated

This is what I think is fun about fiction - you get to use as much history as you want as scaffolding and then go beyond it and change it and mutate it.

Robin Sloan

Change History Fun Think You Want

I will not resign.

Michel Temer

Will Resign

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

Josh Homme

Someone Help Trying You Want Ask

I'm sure there's a long list of one-time all-stars, and I don't want to be on it.

DeMar DeRozan

Long Want Sure List Long List

I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.

Deborah Cox

Love Stone New Up Album I Love

The reality is I meet a lot of actresses. They're wonderful, beautiful ladies. It's pretty hard to stay away from them. You know, there's worse problems to have.

David Sutcliffe

Beautiful Problems Reality You Meet

It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.

Branford Marsalis

Jazz Away Something Players Physical

If you watch wrestling like I do, you watch for the wrestling. There's so much talking. There's some 'twit' back there with a pencil behind his ear writing down all these things for wrestlers to say.

Bret Hart

Writing Talking You Back Down Say