Umberto Eco Quotes

... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

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• I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Think
  • Way
  • Happen

• There something to be said for having even unrealistic dreams. Even if the dreams don't come true - that, to me, is what's beautiful about Los Angeles. It's full of these people who have moved there to chase these dreams.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • True
  • Beautiful

• My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • Grandfather
  • Then
  • Mining

• He was at his best only when the going was good.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Good

• At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Feeling

• Our shared vision of belonging is the thread that weaves through every touchpoint on Airbnb.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • Vision

• Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Great
  • Experience

• Artists like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga have more sway over popular minds than a politician.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Popular

• I always want more. I always want my team to perform to their best.

  

  Luis Suarez
  • Team

• I feel like I was born to ride the track.

  

  Bradley Wiggins

• I didn't want my daughter to grow up in that intense attention - wherever we went, we'd get paparazzi. There are bigger, better superstars in America, so I thought, 'I'll go there for a quick holiday, and relax.' And my holiday just turned into me loving it and wanting to stay there longer and longer.

  

  Mel B Spice Girls
  • Up
  • America
  • Attention

• Nobody goes right to work. You might get there on time, but, screw the company, those first twenty minute belong to you, right? It's not an attitude in line with the American Spirit, but there it is: we all screw around first. 'I just got here, man, you kiddin' me?' Really. You never see a memo that says 9:01.

  

  George Carlin
  • Time
  • Work
  • American

• Words are so important to us, so vital to our beings, that we sometimes take this gift of ours for granted. We shouldn’t—words are too powerful to take for granted.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Important
  • Words
  • Powerful

• It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Space
  • Moment
  • Stars

• Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Morning

• As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.

  

  Albert Shanker
  • Trying
  • Changing
  • Teachers

• Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Popular

• The only dynasty I like is the Duck Dynasty.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Ducks
  • Dynasty

• I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky begins. I am stirred by the soaring and dipping fields that make the landscape into a rumpled green counterpane. I thought I would never have such powerful feelings again. I thought I would live through the rest of my life having experiences, and thoughts, but I never thought I would again feel deeply-- I was convinced that my wounds had healed and become thick scars, essentially numb.

  

  Katharine Weber
  • Powerful
  • Feelings
  • Landscape

• Honestly, just waking up every morning with headaches is tough, to know that I can't play tonight or I can't run tonight. Once the headaches started going away a little bit, I knew I had a chance.

  

  Alecko Eskandarian
  • Play
  • Chance
  • Headaches

• Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their special function or profession.

  

  William Wickenden
  • Knowledge
  • Winning
  • Profession

• No person is important enough to make me angry.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Important
  • Person
  • Angry

• ... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Dimensions
  • Ethical
  • Eden