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Umberto Eco Quotes

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Children Moment Small Story Write

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.

Life Music Respect People My Life

Liberalism has never been about establishing a universal standard. Liberalism is simply intellectual cover for those wanting to gain political power and increase the size of the state.

Andrew Breitbart

Power Political Intellectual Never

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

People Think Honest Merchant Bargain

Obamacare has got to go.

Go Got Obamacare

I feel angry with myself the way I handled the Bible and Christianity. A lot more people are more normal with Christianity. I was crazy... telling people you will go to hell. I lost all my friends because of my militant faith.

Faith Myself Angry People Crazy You

Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books.

History You Nobody Know Damn Write

The only thing an adult can give a child is time.

Time Child Adult Give Only Thing

I now found that the spider cannot fix its thread to anything without imprinting the hind part of its body on the place, by which pressure it emits an incredible number of excessively small threads diverging in every direction from whence we may conclude that as soon as the threads are exposed to the air, they lose their viscosity or gluey quality.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Quality Small Direction Pressure Now

The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There's this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which was the communist interpretation through Lawrence Lipton.

Generation Rebellion Misunderstood

I'd like to see the Olympics live. I've only watched it on television.

Live Television See Only Like

The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.

Thomas P. Campbell

Great Culture Walk World Direction

I think why people are drawn to me is because I'm very relatable. I don't filter.

People Me Think Why Filter Because

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