Umberto Eco Quotes

I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.

Umberto Eco

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• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Moderation
  • Excess

• On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Hand
  • Poverty
  • Look

• I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Good
  • Think
  • Carpenter

• I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Angel
  • Monster
  • Either

• 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
  • Beautiful
  • Day
  • Band

• 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
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• 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
  • Player
  • Better
  • Win

• In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Friend
  • Play

• I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Thought

• You can raise a good child in a single-parent family, but it's much more difficult.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Good
  • Family
  • Single

• The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• 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
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Old

• 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
  • Film
  • Working
  • Exciting

• Dance is my passion.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Passion
  • Dance

• 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
  • War
  • Air
  • Conflict

• 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
  • Time
  • Space
  • Joy

• In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life

• In the faces of men and women I see God.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• All intense interest in luxury is a mark of inner poverty. The less grace there is in the soul, the more ornament must be on the body.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • Soul
  • Poverty

• I always loved digging away at the story, trying to find out things that people don't want you to find out and piecing it all together. I love the treasure hunt aspect of it, the thrill of the chase.

  

  Kevin Macdonald
  • People
  • Trying
  • Together

• As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • Up
  • Nasty

• I think if you come out to California trying to be an actor, it's pretty hard. There's desperation. A lot of people are desperate, and a lot of people are clueless, including me. It's hard to try to figure it out. I've never told you, but I have head shots that if you saw them... they're so terrible! It's so embarrassing.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• Haven't you ever seen a 3-year-old when he makes a foolish blunder? He looks at whatever child or adult is nearby and screams at him 'Look at what you made me do!' That's the moral universe that they always lived in.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Universe
  • Moral

• I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.

  

  Umberto Eco