Umberto Eco Quotes

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

Umberto Eco

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• For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Baseball

• In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Business
  • You
  • Investment

• A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Japanese

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Remember
  • Words

• While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • May
  • Want
  • Trump

• My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Work
  • Love

• If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!

  

  Veronica Roth
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Reading

• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Want
  • Career

• I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • School
  • High
  • Crazy

• The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Battle

• Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Pretty
  • Stuck
  • Truthfully

• Women are complicated. We all know that.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Women
  • Know
  • Complicated

• Social peace requires reciprocity.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Peace
  • Social
  • Requires

• Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Way
  • Perspective
  • Situation

• TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Want
  • Most

• The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Yourself

• I can never find the right bras.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Never
  • Find
  • I Can

• When I was at AOL, I was always on the web media side while much of the company was focused on the ISP business. We focused on big categories like celebrities and sports, and we created brands around that category like AOL Celebrities, AOL Movies and Fanhouse.

  

  Jim Bankoff
  • Business
  • Sports

• But Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all (which of all other I should never have foreseen or once suspected) he hath raised up a sect of such as teach that the Ten Commandments ought to be taken out of the church, and that men should not be terrified with the law, but gently exerted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Men
  • Law
  • Grace

• I am running (for president) because I think the world is falling apart.

  

  Lindsey Graham
  • World
  • Running

• It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • House

• A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better.

  

  John James Audubon
  • Work
  • Blue

• One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Great
  • Stupid
  • Poet