Umberto Eco Quotes
If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not done what he did in the 21st. He would have understood how difficult it was to control this territory. He probably didn't read them.
Umberto Eco
Quotes to Explore
For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
J. K. Simmons
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
Ovid
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
Abhishek Bachchan
I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
Lakshmi Pratury
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
Barbra Streisand
From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
Olav Thon
I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
Zubin Mehta
I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
Natascha McElhone
Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
Dana Perino
I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
Harold Prince
'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.
Taylor Schilling
When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
G. Willow Wilson
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
Jack Kerouac
Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
Vicente Fox
To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
Edie Campbell
This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
Hannah Gadsby
After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
A. R. Rahman
Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
Marshall Field
I think fear has been racialised. When you get someone who says 'I was afraid' of a big black guy, that's enough to say, 'Okay, not guilty,' or, 'No indictment.' It's persisted over generations, and it needs to stop.
Yance Ford
You want to be original, you want to be yourself, and whether that’s accepted or not accepted, that’s not as important as being you.
Tyler Hubbard
Florida Georgia Line
I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.
Jerry Harrison
Talking Heads
It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.
LeVar Burton
If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not done what he did in the 21st. He would have understood how difficult it was to control this territory. He probably didn't read them.
Umberto Eco
