Umberto Eco Quotes
After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.Umberto Eco
Quotes to Explore
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
Larisa Oleynik -
The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe -
I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
Jack Osbourne -
When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
Taylour Paige -
I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
Samuel Larsen -
What really matters is what's on the inside.
Victoria Justice
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
Famke Janssen -
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
Walter Pater -
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
Hans Kung -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
Ramakrishna -
A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
Sam Rayburn
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
Zinedine Zidane -
The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
V. S. Naipaul -
Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
Vin Diesel -
But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
Tea Leoni -
The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
Daniel D. Palmer
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My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
Sam Shepard -
I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote.
Ted Cruz -
'Cause it's a good nightTo be out there soakin' up the moonlight.Stake out a little piece of shoreline.I've got the perfect place in mind.It's in the middle of nowhere; only way to get thereYou got to get a little mud on the tires.
Brad Paisley -
When they don't have your back on a show, it's the worst feeling ever. That energy trickles down to the cast and crew. You can feel when it's not gonna be a winner. But when you have the support of the network and the studio, it's a really good feeling.
Jamie Chung -
There's always a tension between those who would like to garner wealth, and they contribute a lot to society. There's also those who say, 'I believe in the common good. I want that to be enlarged.' They contribute a lot to society. The tension, the debate, between these two views is extremely important to our progress.
John Sulston -
After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.
Umberto Eco