Umberto Eco Quotes

After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia.

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• The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Political
  • Better
  • Economy

• These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • Children
  • Father

• Israel never targets civilians deliberately, period.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Never
  • Period
  • Israel

• I have so many gay friends that I love.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Gay

• I've got heaps of dreams.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Dreams
  • Got

• People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I use to sign books. I use that a lot. I like to keep them around because they remind me that people are waiting for these books and that they really love them. It gives me motivation in those times when I'm not feeling very motivated.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Like

• I understand that the average person can't imagine damaging their looks in any way if it could be avoided. But I don't value my physical beauty to the point where I would not do something I truly enjoy because I'm afraid of potentially hurting something superficial.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Value
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty

• I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • Job
  • College

• 'Community' is a comedy show, and one of the characters happens to be a Christian. I do think they have been very careful to make sure everyone is the butt of the joke for various reasons.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Think
  • Community
  • Comedy

• I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Day
  • More
  • Half

• …no European whore’s mock-respectability.

  

  Anthony Burgess

• It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Live
  • May
  • Hope

• We fret ourselves to reform life, in order that posterity may be happy, and posterity will say as usual: 'In the past it used to be better, the present is worse than the past.'

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life
  • May
  • Happy

• If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

  

  Martin Lawrence

• You're going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your iPhone or your Android device. Yelp saw that very early on. And when we launched the mobile product, we saw immediate growth, and we were stunned.

  

  Max Levchin
  • Growth

• I helped start a ceramics company called CPS Technologies. We took it public in 1987 at $12 a share. Three months later, there was this horrible cliff: Black Monday. Fidelity had bought 15 percent of our stock, and their algorithm caused them to dump it all onto the market that day. We dropped from $12 to $2.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Black
  • Stock
  • Monday

• I was my parent's first child, Joanna Catherine Going, named for my great-great grandmother Catherine, and my father's maternal aunt Johanna Burke, and bearing the initials of my father's father, John Christopher, who passed away just months before I was born.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Great
  • Father
  • Grandmother

• We have always been dreamers in Montana.

  

  Brian Schweitzer

• In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Important
  • Powerful

• You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which calculates the causes and effects of man's industry, and shows how it may be best applied.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Facts
  • Economy
  • Causes

• I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Guitars
  • Deaf

• Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • She
  • Mother

• I think Eddie Murphy is the greatest comedian. I do think that Richard Pryor is the Godfather, but Eddie Murphy, in my opinion, has every comedic category in his arsenal. He can roast you. He can freestyle. He can host. He was LeBron James before we even saw LeBron James.

  

  Lil Rel Howery
  • Opinion
  • Godfather

• After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia.

  

  Umberto Eco