Umberto Eco Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
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I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
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The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.
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Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
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The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
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Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
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My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.
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I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.
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I felt that not only in my book but in novels in general there was something that truly agitated me, a bare and throbbing heart, the same that had burst out of my chest in that distant moment when Lila had proposed that we write a story together. It had fallen to me to do it seriously. But was that what I wanted? To write, to write with purpose, to write better than I had already? And to study the stories of the past and the present to understand how they worked, and to learn, learn everything about the world with the sole purpose of constructing living hearts, which no one would ever do better than me, not even Lila if she had had the opportunity?
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I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them.
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Chinese learning is an internal learning, but Western learning is an external one; Chinese learning is for the cultivation of oneself, just as Western learning is for the handling of worldly affairs.
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When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
