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Something Quotes by Umberto Eco
- Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not…
- For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then…
- Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
- It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times.…
- The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder…
- Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie,…
- To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen…
- Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know…
More Something Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen