Umberto Eco Quotes
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
-
Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
-
I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
-
Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
-
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
-
When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
-
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
-
When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
-
Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
-
Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
-
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
-
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
-
Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
-
My brother is really, really slow.
-
I dream about doing a film about once a week.
-
I don't eat any red meat.
-
A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
-
I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.
-
We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.
-
So, very early reports are that Obamacare exchanges are, as expected, having some technical glitches on the first day - maybe even a bit worse than expected, because it appears that volume has been much bigger than predicted. Here’s what you need to know: this is good, not bad, news for the program... Lots of people logging on and signing up on the very first day... is an early indication that it’s going to be fine, that plenty of people will sign up for the first year of health reform.
-
My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.
-
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
