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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That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
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I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things. My first three novels were all about families. Things that happen in a house within a family, because you're a child or because you want to keep the family together, you suffer things you might not have had to suffer if you weren't in that situation.
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A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.
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We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.
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Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
