Umberto Eco Quotes

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

Umberto Eco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleEndDoingTalkingGhostsSee

What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.

Jeremy Rifkin

LifeSciencePowerfulNowHere

Yes, I have a website that puts out conservative news. Yes, I am part owner of a gun company. Yes, I'm a Republican who was cast into the limelight for having the temerity to confront Barack Obama on the question of redistributing wealth... But I'm a working man, and I'm working.

Joe Wurzelbacher

ManI AmGunWebsiteWealthNews

I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. My dad took me hunting, trapping and fishing when I was a kid.

John W. Thompson

BeachFishingMeHuntingFloridaUp

I do think Australians as a rule have a very good sensibility to them, and I think most people, if they were given the option, wouldn't choose to rip off a filmmaker or an artist - I don't think its part of the Australian psyche.

John Polson

GoodPeopleThinkChooseArtistOff

It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.

Russell Brand

BeautifulBelieve In YourselfYourself

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

Maryanne Wolf

BrainReadingLearnNewSomething

If you can't do it and do it well, you can't do it, period.

Judy Martz

YouWellPeriod

The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn.

Julia Child

ArtLearnHobbyNewMatterBecome

I have an image of what a British gentleman looks like, and that image finds real expression in Prince Charles. He is beyond fashion - he is an archetype of style.

Donatella Versace

StyleGentlemanFashionLooksImage

I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. government could listen in on phone conversations or read private mail without first obtaining a warrant from a court. That sounds more like something that happened in the Soviet Union.

Chellie Pingree

DayGovernmentThoughtPhoneNever

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

Arthur Erickson

BuildingDirectionTraditionCraft

It's all about knowing when to listen to that conversation and - without sounding really hokey - when to tune it out and follow your heart.

Winona Ryder

HeartFollow Your HeartConversation

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