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.

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• I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Help
  • Loved

• 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.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Business
  • City
  • 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.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • World
  • Work
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • High
  • Brain

• Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Precedes

• 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.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Night

• A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Together
  • Ending

• When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Men
  • Attention
  • Simple

• 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.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• 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
  • Problem
  • Responsibility
  • Environment

• I don't think that women need to smell interesting.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Women
  • Think
  • Interesting

• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Emperor
  • Above

• A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Become
  • Atheist

• 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.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • America
  • Food
  • Creative

• My brother is really, really slow.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Brother
  • Really
  • Slow

• I dream about doing a film about once a week.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Dream
  • Doing
  • Week

• A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Real
  • Funny

• One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Money
  • Me
  • Control

• Just to be able to go into Spring Training and know you have a chance to make the final team is something you look forward to. The first year going, you know you don't have a chance. To know it could be different this year and it could be your opportunity, it's just a matter of taking hold of it and going with it.

  

  Andrew Brown
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Team

• When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

  

  Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Up
  • Music
  • House

• I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this supercool feeling to it.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Feeling
  • Motorcycle
  • Vintage

• I have a Pinterest, and if you look there you'll see the things I really like and adore, have crushes on, and there's a lot of stuff from Riccardo's [Tisci] line on there.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Looks
  • Crush
  • Lines

• There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Experience
  • Past