Umberto Eco Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.
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The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
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If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.
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I want you to like me, but I don't care if you don't.
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Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?
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During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.
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What had happened to our love? Somehow it had faded, or worn out, or simply withered away.
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We like lists because we don't want to die.
