Umberto Eco Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
-
I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
-
My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
-
I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
-
My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
-
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
-
I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
-
When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
-
Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
-
People die because they find living too painful.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
-
When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
-
Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
-
It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.
-
I put the ball in play. That's what I want.
-
There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.
-
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
-
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
-
Cynicism and defensiveness are two things constantly levelled at me. Look, I've got time for people, I'm good mannered. I usually find that when you're down, nobody has a bloody minute for you. If I was a nobody, you wouldn't even talk to me. People, in general, don't like you being upfront and civil. They hate you for it. They label you a cynic 'cos you're reasonable.
-
We like lists because we don't want to die.
