Umberto Eco Quotes

I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it.

Umberto Eco

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• How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Time
  • Small
  • Sweet

• That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dance

• Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • Light
  • Control
  • Brain

• In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Single

• I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • World
  • Power
  • Training

• Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Sometimes
  • Saying
  • Silent

• There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Country
  • Children
  • Bad

• I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Business
  • Want
  • Israel

• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Home

• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Words
  • Prayer

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Think
  • Well
  • Did

• It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Good
  • Career
  • Plan

• The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • School

• We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Language
  • Service
  • Tests

• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Die
  • End
  • Civilization

• In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Time
  • Singing
  • Persistence

• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Back
  • Head
  • Pop

• Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Truth
  • Emotion
  • Guitar Player

• Since retiring, there's only been one time I actually dreamed about wrestling. In my dream, I was wrestling against Kurt Angle. I had him clamped in a headlock. I was breathing hard, and I remember telling myself, 'This is only a dream. It's not real.' But the longer I held Kurt in a headlock, I started to believe it was real.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Believe
  • Dream
  • Wrestling

• Most things come from inside; they're intuitive. That's the way I am.

  

  Andres Iniesta

• My dad's life story was a string of kindness. He treated everyone as an equal, whether it was the bank teller or the bank president. He even attributed his survival to the courage of kindness.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Courage

• I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • Right Place
  • Within Reach