Umberto Eco Quotes

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

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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As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

John Harwood

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At some point, you have to declare an idea dead and, if not a failure, then at least not a success.

Michael Gerber

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Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

John Tyndall

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You can do more good by being good than any other way.

John Wooden

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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Robert A. Heinlein

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The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.

Rose Schneiderman

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The problem with Russia is not that it has laws restricting promotion of the gay lifestyle. The problem with Russia is that it has no laws that effectively constrain the strong or protect the weak.

Robert Zubrin

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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthur

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Dreams rise like the sun and set like the sun: One minute, it is high and bright; the next minute, you might lose it.

Dawn Richard

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We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one god.

Ashraf Barhom

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For people who use Google Wallet, the experience works.

Sundar Pichai

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Fashion photographers are the new painters.

Peter Lindbergh

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