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.Umberto Eco
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
Yogi Berra -
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.
Ida B. Wells -
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.
Napoleon Hill -
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Rabindranath Tagore -
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.
Kate Forsyth -
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.'
Carlene Carter -
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.
Jackie Robinson -
It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
Washed Out -
In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
Patrick Modiano -
I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
Jackson Rathbone -
I crave attention and adventure.
Eddie Cibrian
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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.
Becki Newton -
I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
Aaron Neville -
I specifically had my son wear a Browns jersey on the streets of Pittsburgh while we were there.
Nate Torrence -
It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
Sal Albanese -
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.
Laura Donnelly -
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.
Laura Dern
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If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
Federica Montseny -
Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."
Euripides -
Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.
William James -
Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
Barry Williams -
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.
Umberto Eco