Umberto Eco Quotes
Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.
Quotes to Explore
-
I didn't know much about golf growing up.
-
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
-
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
-
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
-
Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
-
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
-
I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'
-
I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
-
It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
-
In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
-
I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
-
I crave attention and adventure.
-
I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
-
I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
-
I specifically had my son wear a Browns jersey on the streets of Pittsburgh while we were there.
-
It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
-
When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
-
I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
-
It is because we are predominantly purposeful beings that we are perpetually correcting our immediate sensations. But men are free not to be utilitarianly purposeful. They can sometime be artists, for example. In which case they may like to accept the immediate sensation uncorrected, because it happens to be beautiful.
-
Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.
-
The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.
-
Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
-
It's about really having a God connection: a connection with the divine behind the world and flowing forth out of that in a positive way with love and moving toward making a contribution that pushes forth the evolution of the world.
-
Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.
