Umberto Eco Quotes

Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.

Umberto Eco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StyleLightBeachCreativityEnjoy

I'm so lucky to do what I do, traveling across the country and making people laugh.

Anjelah Johnson

PeopleLaughCountryLuckyTraveling

The whole industry evolves around a great song.

Michael Bolton

GreatSongIndustryWholeAround

When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!

Robbie Williams

PeopleSocietyBackGoTopOut

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.

Jason Alexander

FunnyCharacterPainMoreHimThan

Gratitude is one of the greatest gifts we can give. And it's not a gift we often give to children. We expect it of them, but we don't necessarily give it back.

Jason Reynolds

GratitudeChildrenGiftBackExpect

Maybe there's two types of people in the world: those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans.

Jon Ronson

PeopleWorldTwoOverIdeologyWho

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

Alicia Keys

MusicDoneRealizeInspirationBeen

Social networks matter greatly, and our class calibrations are often around what college one attended, leading to gruesome institutional divisions between those who attend, say, community colleges and those who attend top-tier universities.

Alissa Quart

CommunityCollegeSayClassMatter

Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.

Paul Weyrich

PracticeCollegeFindingDifficult

For a man, the soul of a woman is a preserving talisman, guarding him from moral infections; it is a power holding him to the straight path, a guide leading him back from the crooked to the straight. On the other hand, the soul of a woman can be his evil and ruin him forever.

Nikolai Gogol

PowerPathWomanSoulManEvil

For over two centuries, Americans have grown up in a society that rewards hard work, protects innovation, and allows its citizens to constantly break new barriers. The key element to this success rests on freedom and the ability of individuals to strive toward achieving their dreams and making their children's futures better than their own.

Renee Ellmers

WorkHard WorkSuccessDreamsKey

It's fashionable to think that the conservative parties in America are the science deniers. You certainly wouldn't have trouble supporting that claim. But liberals are not exempt.

Kyle Hill

ScienceThinkAmericaYouTrouble

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