Umberto Eco Quotes

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TruthWorldBelieveMadNowOwn

The more you know the less you need to say.

Jim Rohn

YouKnowSayMoreNeedLess

Everyone should have a blog. It's the most democratic thing ever.

Jessica Cutler

EveryoneDemocraticMostShouldBlog

With all my outside activities, I have to remind people I am really in advertising.

Jerry Della Femina

I AmPeopleAdvertisingOutsideAm

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

John Morley

ImprovementTroubleVirtueActVery

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

Roger Ebert

LifeExperiencePeopleNowTalk

I've still never gotten used to myself in drag.

RuPaul

MyselfNeverDragUsedStillGotten

I'm definitely bicoastal, but I have to say, it's easier to live in New York than in L.A. I feel like people respect other people's space a bit more here.

Mary-Kate Olsen

LiveRespectNew YorkSpacePeople

Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.

Mitch Kapor

PeopleJazzSalesPointLowOff

We were Orthodox Jews, but we really didn't deserve it. I mean, bacon - my father said, 'Don't put bacon in the house,' but we had bacon. We didn't keep kosher. And we observed which today would be Conservative Jews. But in those days, we belonged to an Orthodox temple. So we made out we were Orthodox Jews, but we really weren't.

Don Rickles

FatherTodayHouseSaidConservative

More people working and paying taxes reduces government expenditures and helps us move a little closer to balance.

Dick Durbin

BalanceGovernmentPeopleMoreTaxes

I'm incredibly happy to be doing my own thing in New York.

Sherry Stringfield

New YorkHappyDoingNewMy OwnOwn

People, they don't know how to bend; they just break.

Noah Hawley

PeopleKnowBendBreakJustHow

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