Umberto Eco Quotes

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

Umberto Eco

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• When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Paris

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'

  

  Ted Danson
  • Grateful
  • Cheers

• 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Ordinary
  • Insult

• You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Think
  • Me

• I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

  

  T-Pain
  • Money
  • Think
  • Parents

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Long
  • New

• For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Change
  • Environment
  • Never

• I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Always
  • Minutes

• The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • College
  • Rock
  • Honest

• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Get
  • Representative

• I'm honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team - a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it's a huge honor for me to be named captain.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Great
  • Team

• I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Always

• My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Love
  • Hope
  • For Her

• Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Successful
  • Product
  • Apple

• The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Day
  • Strange
  • Once

• I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • People
  • Star
  • Sweet

• ...the relatively unconscious man driven by his natural impulses because, imprisoned in his familiar world, he clings to the commonplace, the obvious, the probable, the collectively valid, using for his motto: 'Thinking is difficult. Therefore, let the herd pronounce judgement.'

  

  Carl Jung
  • World
  • Thinking

• Compared to overdeveloped islands like Nassau, Bimini has kept its original charm. Walk the streets to see colorfully painted houses, funky shops, and trade greetings with friendly Biminites.

  

  Amanda Hearst

• The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

  

  Charles Evans Hughes
  • Home

• Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Men
  • Lazy
  • Labor

• There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their pursuit of pleasures and diversions, without injuring the honor and respect we owe to them.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Honor

• We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Death
  • Limit
  • Humiliating