Umberto Eco Quotes

I started to write The Name of the Rose in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.

Umberto Eco

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• Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Game
  • Success
  • Learn

• I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Know
  • Athlete
  • Planet

• I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Best
  • Monster
  • Mess

• You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Know

• A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • History
  • Game
  • Missing

• I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Love
  • Father
  • Night

• My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Fun
  • Violence
  • Things

• I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Want
  • Child
  • Cancer

• If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Food
  • Lost

• I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Live
  • Myself

• Liberation is not deliverance.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Freedom
  • Liberation

• When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Men
  • Words
  • Find

• The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who know me also know that I always want to win titles. And I think that Manchester United are a club which can win titles.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • High
  • Strong
  • Me

• We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Light
  • Sun

• He'd been mistaken in thinking that if he killed himself the sordid bourgeois world would perish with him.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • World
  • Thinking

• Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Kids
  • True

• 'Now it seems that Roger has once more taken up with Miss Roswyn. I can’t say that I approve, but he has not troubled to ask my advice.' She heaved a sigh. 'But I am sure that the world will never go precisely to my liking.''Does it for anyone?' asked Bernard Bickel with good-natured cynicism.'Probably not, and I must reconcile myself to the fact.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

  

  Tammy Wynette
  • Man
  • For Her
  • Give

• Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.

  

  Janis Ian
  • People

• Now get that Rose, get that get that Rose A little Hennessy & Louis the Thirteenth

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Littles
  • Rose
  • Materialistic

• There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;" And the white rose weeps, "She is late;" The larkspur listens, "I hear; I hear;" And the lily whispers, "I wait."

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Fate
  • Rose
  • Tear

• I started to write The Name of the Rose in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Rose
  • March