Umberto Eco Quotes
Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.
-
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
-
As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
-
If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.
-
I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
-
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
-
The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
-
I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
-
The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
-
My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
-
The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
-
It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
-
Everybody likes a compliment.
-
We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.
-
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
-
I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.
-
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
-
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
-
The character in 'Arya' was so close to my real life persona. The director saw me once and felt I was the right guy for the role because my body language was so flamboyant. In real life, too, I am very peppy and full of life.
-
You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
-
When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.
-
People label you the way they know you best.
-
I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
-
Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
