Umberto Eco Quotes

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

Umberto Eco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BlameRealityBetterYouDreamReal

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.

Joe Namath

LifeCommitmentFootballSchedule

It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.

John Byrne

CultureCuriosityFeedSubscribe

I love 45-minute power workouts. I get in, do my thing, and then I'm able to go pick up Everly from school. It gives me energy.

Jenna Dewan

LovePowerSchoolMeEnergyGo

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

Andrew Forrest

SlaveryWorldSomeoneYouCannot

The United States has an active pharmaceutical industry that has brought huge benefits to the U.S. public. Most Americans, who benefit from these advances, have little understanding of how difficult it is to create an important new medical therapy and make it available to improve public health.

Robert Jarvik

HealthMedicalUnderstandingCreate

Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

Angelo Scola

LifeMoralCrimeAlwaysTaking

There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives.

Soledad O'Brien

WorkInspirationalEducationChange

I think one of the most important things we can do as feminists is acknowledge that, even though we have womanhood in common, we have to start to think about the ways in which we're different, how those differences affect us, and what kinds of needs we have based on our differences.

Roxane Gay

StartThinkDifferencesImportantUs

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

Mary Cassatt

TreeFruitThinkYouUpShake

Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

Michael Ramsey

FailureResponsibilityManFallWill

Getting up at four in the morning to tend the farm while the world is quiet - feeding animals, mucking stalls, gathering eggs, filling water troughs, checking fences, letting animals out into the field - is a high point to my day.

Chip Gaines

MorningWaterDayWorldFarmQuiet

I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.

Anne Lamott

ShortFallCarryGreatestCrossOur

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