Umberto Eco Quotes

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Umberto Eco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016

Topics

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I really enjoy just hanging out at my house since I never get to be there.

Jennifer Nettles

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There are different kinds of terrorist movements, and specifically you occasionally face a bully, a Qaddafi. But a bully is different from a zealot. A bully you can deal with, with force, and persuade that bully, through force alone, to stop what he was doing.

Robert McFarlane

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Give me a break.

John Stossel

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Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry.

Ron Eglash

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Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

Rupert Murdoch

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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Moliere

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In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I've always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do.

Christopher Abbott

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When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.

Anton Yelchin

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Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

Phil Gramm

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The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

Shawn Ashmore

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I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.

Lindsay Davenport

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Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

Jurgen Klopp

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