Umberto Eco Quotes
The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.Umberto Eco
Quotes to Explore
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TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.
Jack Dorsey -
Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
F. Murray Abraham -
We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
J. B. Smoove -
It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.
Dan Barber
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People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
Barry Zito -
My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
Dan Aykroyd -
Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
Laura Hillenbrand -
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Carl Sandburg -
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
Malik Bendjelloul -
The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
Carlos Ghosn -
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.
Zadie Smith -
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
Francine Pascal
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In truth we gaze but do not see, and hearken but do not hear; we eat and drink but do not taste. And there lies the difference between Jesus of Nazareth and ourselves. His senses were all continually made new, and the world to Him was always a new world.
Kahlil Gibran -
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter Scott -
That's the good thing about music: you can sing about people's lives in its stages and feelings. Some songs can put something in context that you couldn't. They can free your mind or can make you think or can be redeeming.
Paolo Nutini -
A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.
Steve Guttenberg -
In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never served as a unifying factor. Their adherents were equally manipulated by the clergies to regard the others as wicked infidels or idolaters. The centuries passed in constant pious agitation and in frequent religious wars.
Amos Elon -
The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
Umberto Eco