Whenever anyone asks me what book I would take with me to a desert island,
I reply, "The phone book: with all those characters, I could invent an
infinite number of stories.
-- Umberto Eco
I reply, "The phone book: with all those characters, I could invent an
infinite number of stories.
-- Umberto Eco
Related:
- But since life is cruel, to you and to me, here I am.
Umberto... - If I could read your mind, love,
What a tale your thoughts could tell,
Just like a paperback novel, The kind the drugstore... - I felt like poisoning a monk.
--
Umberto Eco on why he wrote the novel The Name of the... - Actually, I just got those from a book I read last week.
"Sue Me"... - I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute:
and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what... - Cecil: At last I'm going to do what Bob never could.
Kill Bart Simpson! Bart: Throwing me off a... - A man meets a girl at a party and asks her if she fancies a quick 68.
"A 68 ?" asks the girl, "What's one of those then?"... - Do to others as I would they should do to me.
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Plato (428-348 BCE) "The Republic" Book XI,... - By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts...
From the same category:
- Some say that my teaching is nonsense.
Others call it lofty but impractical.
But to those who have looked inside themselves, this... - Would a Muslim vampire be scared of the
Koran... - Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four
essential food groups -
alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. -- Alex Levine... - He was as tough as a two
dollar... - May Euell Gibbons eat your only copy of the
manual...
