Umberto Eco Quotes
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde -
On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
Indira Gandhi -
I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
Oliver Reed -
I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
R. Kelly -
We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
Ville Valo HIM -
I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
Garret Dillahunt
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I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.
Pablo Sandoval -
You can raise a good child in a single-parent family, but it's much more difficult.
Sam Brownback -
An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.
Yair Lapid -
Working on 'The War Room' was a thrill, not only because we were given such exquisite access to the nerve center of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, but for me personally, it was so exciting to be producing my first film and working with documentary filmmaking legends D.A. Pannebaker and Chris Hegedus, who were the film's directors.
R. J. Cutler -
Dance is my passion.
Manju Warrier -
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
H. G. Wells
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In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.
Carl Sagan -
In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
In the faces of men and women I see God.
Walt Whitman -
Time will rust the sharpest sword,Time will consume the strongest cord;That which molders hemp and steel,Mortal arm and nerve must feel.
Walter Scott -
When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.
Leonard Lauder -
I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
Benicio Del Toro
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Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. / Dread fifty above more than fifty below.
Robert Frost -
I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.
Patrick MacGill -
An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to us threatened with fragmentation. The resulting political chaos could well be filled by elements hostile to our values and sympathetic to our adversaries.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce -
My father is an architect, so I often think like a designer or an architect. I remember when I was admiring buildings, I would look up at them and see this perspective and this awesome power of the monument in front of me.
Platon Antoniou -
I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.
Umberto Eco