#her

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#being #coward #dreams #else #everybody

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#book #concepts #contains #dumb #eye

Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#just #other #show #sister #sometimes

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#father #his

It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1. ↗

— Stefan Edberg

#another #became #called #changed #finals

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. ↗

— David Eddings

#fiction #general #hesitate #i #mankind

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it. ↗

— David Eddings

#degree #had #happy #i #novel

I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing. ↗

— Patricia Velasquez

#boyfriend #brother #brothers #could #happy

I remember my brother Nash had just directed me in 'The Square,' and I was sitting in Australia going: 'No one's called me about working for ages. I don't know if I'm ever going to get another job.' ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#ages #another #australia #brother #called

I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee. ↗

— Charles Edison

#employee #every #here #i #integrity