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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There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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It was in Spain that my generation learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy.
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Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.
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When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.
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And during the campaign of 1936, she writes that she and her brother would always rather be out doing things when they're sick, rather than take to their beds. And I think Eleanor Roosevelt always responded to pain by doing more, by doing something, by being active. And I think she just couldn't bear to look at her childhood grief. And she didn't.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
