Umberto Eco Quotes

Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

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• I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • American
  • Said
  • Once

• If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • People
  • Bad
  • Question

• Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Said
  • Drug
  • Because

• It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Problem
  • Sad

• Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.

  

  Kaitlin Doubleday
  • Bad
  • Place
  • Insecurity

• I've been in relationships where we've said 'I love you' after two weeks.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Love
  • Said
  • I Love You

• Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Think
  • Said
  • Independence

• You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Moment

• Whenever someone says something bad about you, just confront them on it and just be a man and own up to it. If you said something you shouldn t have said, and it's important to somebody you need to talk to, you need to go talk to them. Be a man. Step up.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • Important
  • Bad

• I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Money
  • Bad
  • Team

• Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Women
  • Bad
  • Fear

• Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard.

  

  Iman
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Said

• We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

  

  Barry White
  • Said
  • Company
  • Ready

• When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

  

  Dan Totheroh
  • Money
  • Heart
  • Bad

• Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Claire, I-Look, my life is one long series of screw-ups and bad decisions, and I know that. I own that. But you...I just want you to be happy. And it cuts me when you're not." "I'm happy with you." She heard the smile in his voice this time. "So what do you really want? A storybook life in Vampireville, with your life on the line every day and a half?" "I'm considering it," she said. And she was.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

  

  Hernan Cortes
  • Hate
  • Travel

• Why can't she move in with you? Is she against that? She's not a Mormon or anything, is she?

  

  Joseph Bologna
  • Why
  • She

• Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Said