Umberto Eco Quotes

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.

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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Republicans know that government spending creates jobs. They just want that spending to be funneled to their projects and districts... and they certainly don't want to say it out loud.

Jennifer Granholm

GovernmentKnowSayWantOutJust

You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.

Jennifer Beals

ShadowYourselfEvilBetterSomeone

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

Andrew Motion

MomentMeTrueTryWritePoet

I wear weird things sometimes. I like to drink coffee. Neither of those things have anything to do with who I am.

Mary-Kate Olsen

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Don't worry so much. Most of the things you worry about never end up happening.

Dick Van Dyke

EndWorryYouNeverUpThings

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

Dee Hock

KnowDifferenceSubstancePreserve

I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.

Chris O'Donnell

WorkFatherResponsibilityMeWorld

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

Clea Duvall

PeopleBetterFeelUncomfortable

You close the door on me and tell me I can't, I'm gonna find a way to get in.

Tyler Perry

MeDoorYouFindWayTell

When I listen to a fascist, like Rush Limbaugh or Tom Delay or somebody like that, they help me define my views. I ask myself, 'Why do I feel so strongly the opposite of what that guy is saying? He's not stupid. He's evil, but why is he evil?'

Richard Belzer

MyselfMeEvilStupidSayingHelp

China's Internet will continue to be policed and controlled, information filtered, sites prohibited, noncompliant search engines excluded, and sensitive search words disallowed. And where China goes, others, also informed by different values, are already and will follow.

Martin Jacques

WordsSearchInternetInformation

The party lines don't change, that's what makes them a party and you'd be a fool to think that just because there's a black man in there it's not gonna change the real foundation of the system. Especially when you look at his largest contributor to his campaign, AIG, one of the culprits in the economic meltdown itself.

Lupe Fiasco

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