Umberto Eco Quotes

We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.

Umberto Eco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PrisonChristianStopBecomeGoing

I applaud women, and I did my best and took my time after having a kid - in a healthy way, get back to a place where I felt good in my body.

Jennifer Nettles

GoodWomenTimeBestBodyBack

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

John Gardner

DreamsMyselfWordsWallsTalking

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

John Wooden

FaithPrayerPeaceMindTrueThings

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

Steven Spielberg

LoveChildrenHerdKidsSeven

I was very intimidated by the visual effects world. But I began to realize that you don't have to know everything. You have to be able to talk about story.

Ron Howard

WorldStoryYouKnowTalkRealize

She died praying that she might die.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

DieSheMightPrayingDied

I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls.

Judd Apatow

TalkingRelationshipsScaredMovie

If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, What if that didn't bother me? What if I knew exactly what he was talking about? What if I didn't get excited?

Judd Hirsch

CharacterYourselfMeTalkingYou

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

Joss Whedon

SingingEgoWantBecomeGiantKevin

One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.

Delroy Lindo

OpinionYouFeelingMatterNever

A lot of people get into alternative music as part of their identity. It's something that isn't the mainstream, that their brothers and sisters don't know about, and that their parents don't like. It's something they can have as their own.

Chris Cornell

MusicIdentityParentsPeopleKnow

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

Arlo Guthrie

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