Umberto Eco Quotes

Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.

Umberto Eco

Quotes to Explore

The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

Gavin Newsom
- Opportunity
- Space
- Eyes
It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

Adam Braun
Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

Samuel E. Morison
- History
- True
- Reality
I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.

Tamar Braxton
- Done
- Medical
- Surgery
For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'

Laura Trott
- People
- House
- Attention
People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.

Rafael dos Anjos
- People
- Work
- Believe