Umberto Eco Baudolino Quotes

#1. The reason I'm writing funny books is that I wish there were more.

Christopher Moore

#2. It was one of the ferryman's greatest virtues that, like few people, he knew how to listen.

Hermann Hesse

#3. Fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.

Marya Mannes

#4. She's cool in bed, as she ought to be, cuz Ethyl's dead.

Alice Cooper

#5. All they're going to see is a wealthy man who has no idea how to heal their suffering.

Marie Lu

#6. Life is a big craps game. I've got to tell you, it's all been fun.

Kirk Kerkorian

#7. Milk is the only juice in a world of cows.

Munia Khan

#8. 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

#9. Never offer an oath lightly. For you pledge not only your life and sacred honor, but your people's honor as well. To break an oath is to be without honor, to be without a spirit, and to be apart from the people.

Raymond E. Feist

#10. Tell me I'm not the only one who thought he'd set us up," he murmured.
"Totally imagined a huge dead end," I agreed.
We laughed with giddy relief as Sage emerged into the cave.

Hilary Duff

#11. Modelling is a silly, crazy business.

Helena Christensen