Umberto Eco Quotes

Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As far as I know, I was born in late April, at sixty years of age, in a hospital room.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• I've never been one to run from a challenge.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Challenge
  • Run
  • Been

• I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Respect
  • Care

• Every morning I wake up and thank God.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • God
  • Morning

• We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Happiness

• My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • God
  • Home

• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Pain
  • Boy
  • Dog

• If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Mind
  • Easy
  • Something

• It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Believe
  • America
  • Understand

• Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Interest
  • Oil
  • Mess

• Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Sister

• I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Speak
  • Understand
  • Word

• When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Cool
  • Young
  • Street

• To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Man
  • Mean
  • Door

• People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • People
  • Me
  • Creativity

• Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it's not a lie.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Home
  • Truth
  • Car

• We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • People
  • Know
  • Starting

• Know that TODAY, and each and everyday literally becomes the BEST day of your life, when YOU choose to see that it is. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, it only matters what's going on inside of you.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Today
  • Matter

• Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Women
  • Rights

• We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state.

  

  Jennifer Granholm

• The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

  

  Georg Brandes
  • Great
  • Age

• Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As far as I know, I was born in late April, at sixty years of age, in a hospital room.

  

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