Umberto Eco Quotes
Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.
Quotes to Explore
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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'Yes, that's how it is, child. He who works, he who is patient is the superior.'
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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
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When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
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But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
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Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.
