Umberto Eco Quotes

Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.

Umberto Eco

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• When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.

  

  Halsey
  • Good
  • School
  • Bad

• Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Dress

• Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• I made nothing happen very slowly.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Nothing
  • Very
  • Happen

• I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• I watch a lot of football.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Football
  • Watch
  • Lot

• You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Morning

• I'm kinda a first take dude. The first time, cut that mic on, and the spirit is there, and what comes on the mic - I mean, even if I'm mumbling, I like to keep a lot of that initial thing that comes out. Cause that's the spirit.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Mean
  • First

• Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Progress
  • Ignore
  • Fail

• Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Work
  • Sometimes
  • Three

• You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!

  

  Danai Gurira
  • World
  • Rest
  • Idea

• I think Yvonne De Carlo was more famous than Lily. But I gained the younger audience through The Munsters. And it was a steady job.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • Job
  • Famous

• He showed no fear. It seemed that, at the commencement, his race had known gods and no other. Gods had bound and ill treated and slaughtered and played with them. Gods were a fact, as were the sun and the shaking of the earth. Just another terrible reality.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Reality
  • Earth
  • Fear

• 'You know Adam?' Teddy asked him.'Do I know who?''Adam. In the Bible.'Nicholson smiled. 'Not personally,' he said dryly.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Bible

• The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control.

  

  Kim Wilde
  • Control
  • Vulnerability
  • Blonde

• I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of, since none of my relatives could sing or play an instrument. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.

  

  Ray Charles
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Food

• If somebody doesn't want to cook at home or has more family members than they have room for, then it's great to be in a city that's got restaurants that are actually busy on the holidays.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Great
  • Family
  • Home

• Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • Great
  • Music
  • Spiritual

• If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

  

  Jake Roberts
  • Up

• There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Birds
  • Opposite
  • Lambs

• Life is struggle. Even to stand up is a struggle against the law of gravity and I think that the joy of life in the struggle itself - not the victory - because if it were we'd all lose. We're all gonna croak. We all lose the battle of life so if you can't find fun in the fight to live and to live to the fullest then you're a failure already, before you even start.

  

  George Lincoln Rockwell
  • Thinking
  • Fighting
  • Struggle

• Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.

  

  Umberto Eco