Umberto Eco Quotes
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Quotes to Explore
-
I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
-
Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
-
I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
-
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
-
Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
-
I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
-
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
-
I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
-
I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
-
The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.
-
You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
-
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
-
And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.
-
I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
-
In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
-
The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
-
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
-
I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
-
You look at stats for a guy who is a pretty good linebacker, he'll make 100 tackles. You make 100, you're averaging seven or eight tackles a game. If you play every down, that's a good number.
-
The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
-
It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.
-
I definitely paid my dues, and I'm grateful for everything and for my good friends.
-
I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.
-
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
