Umberto Eco Quotes

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Umberto Eco

Quotes to Explore

When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

Irvine Welsh
- Up
- Different
- Live
After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

Becki Newton
- Time
- Great
- School
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Rabindranath Tagore
- Time
- Morning
- Child
I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.

Vicki Lawrence
- Up
- Study
- Rich
I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.

Gail Porter
That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.

Malcolm Gladwell
- Party
- Language
- Stronger