Baudolino Umberto Quotes & Sayings

I don't believe in following a path set by others. You have to create a path for yourself. — Lyrics Born

So it is best for you to withdraw into the world of your portents, for there at least you can decide yourself how portentous they are. — Umberto Eco

There's some ambient music that doesn't do anything. I wouldn't say that that's narrative. It is narrative in that it creates a sort of world where nothing happens, where really nothing happens, so you become a different person after hearing eight minutes of exactly the same thing. Yes, I hear music all the time in which one idea is strung together to another idea, and I feel that such music is non-narrative. — Missy Mazzoli

I only know how to play one role: me. — Karl Lagerfeld

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason. — Charles Caleb Colton

Jessie rummaged through her purse for the necessary equipment. If there were one thing, Baley had once said solemnly, that had resisted mechanical improvement since medieval times, it was a woman's purse. — Isaac Asimov

We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment. — Rollo May

I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too little caution. — John Corey Whaley

One of the things you learn when you get married is how you need to always work on continuing to make it better. — Eric Shanteau

Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second. — Bobby Unser

There, Master Niketas,' Baudolino said, 'when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,' he said, 'to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one. — Umberto Eco

It was just my reality, to never have a boy be interested in me romantically for more than one random moment. Like a TV show you don't like but you end up watching anyway, because there's nothing else on. — Siobhan Vivian