Umberto Eco Quotes

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

Umberto Eco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LivePeopleYouLettersPlacesLike

I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another.

Joan Sutherland

TodayHistorySchoolPeopleThink

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

Andrew O'Hagan

CareAmericaWriterCarelessness

But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection.

John W. Thompson

EndCloudConnectionAlwaysWebWho

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

Steve Forbert

LifeSaidStrangeOftenCompared

You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.

Sholom Aleichem

YouOutTakeCannotJew

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

Robert W. Service

SuccessWinQuietRaceSteadyWho

We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly processed and it was Americans that did it. If we are going to continue to utilize those goods, then what's going to have to happen is that the employers are going to have to elevate the wages in order to attract American workers to do those jobs.

Mo Brooks

FoodAmericanChickenElevateHappen

I've done a lot of dumb things in my life.

Jason Momoa

LifeMy LifeDumbDoneThingsLot

What did people do prior to cell phones? Read a book? If I'm stuck in a car, and I don't have my phone, I'm like, 'What am I doing?' Car rides used to be one of my favorite things.

Chris Evans

CarPeopleBookDoingPhonePhones

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

China Chow

ArtGrowing UpWorldGrowingBigger

You either become like your parents or you become the opposite of your parents. And I like to think that I'm the opposite of my parents.

Chelsea Handler

ParentsThinkYouBecomeOpposite

I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.

Christian Louboutin

WorkAgeCrazyFashionDesignNever

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