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World Quotes by Umberto Eco
- For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines -- some of which, alas, you…
- Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.
- Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the…
- The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted…
- I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to…
- Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
- Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits.…
- I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world.…
- 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.…
- My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of…
- There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that…
- It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.
- If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your…
- In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie…
- What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it…
- Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.
- But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of…
- the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which…
- There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A…
- 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…
- We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
- You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.
- When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach