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Umberto Eco Quotes

It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.

Umberto Eco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good People Roots Understanding Bad

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

John Dryden

Argument Word Blow Tis

You know that song, 'New York, New York?' If I can make it here, I'll make it anywhere? That's kind of like L.A.

Michael Connelly

New York Song You I Can New Know

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

John Templeton

God Sea Thinking Wave Find Idea

I was never a worker. And that's not even being arrogant. I was just never a worker.

Jay-Z

Never Arrogant Being Just Even

Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more.

Christopher Judge

Sports King People Stand Die You

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

Anthony Storr

You Counts

What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.

Ashley Scott

Funny Husband Conservative Tattoos

People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she's a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and '40s.

Peter Jackson

Good Character People Strong Think

I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Create New Try Experiences Much

It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

Ricky Skaggs

Music Hope Great Healing People Way

My message to Washington is the United States has gone through incredible crises, and our leaders have been able to find common ground. And that's what our leaders have to do.

Kenneth Chenault

Find Washington Through Ground Gone

I have OCD mixed with ADD; you try living with that.

Justin Timberlake

You Living Try Add Mixed