Umberto Eco Quotes

I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

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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My nan tells me to eat her fish balls and not drink alcohol. I'd rather have the fish balls.

Jess Glynne

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Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

Johannes Tauler

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I think, to many people in the company, I am somewhat of an outsider.

John L. Flannery

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You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.

Maurice Greene

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It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest of civilization, who have got a program. It's not blind violence. It's with a purpose. They want to destroy the state of Israel. They want every westerner out of the Arab countries, Middle East and elsewhere.

John Reid

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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

Rowan Atkinson

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Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

Michael Moore

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The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.

Moby

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If I want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves me, then that is what I will find in my world.

Louise L. Hay

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When a person only knows abuse, they shift their whole emotional and spiritual life into the context of that abuse. If all you've ever known is to be hurt by the one that pretends to love you, then many times you go to the one who hurts you for love.

Anohni

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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Alice Walker

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I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!

William Lloyd Garrison

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