"I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia.……" — Umberto Eco
"I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot."
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275 Quotes by Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco has 275 quotes on this site.
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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated…
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More Aluminum Quotes
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one of 28 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking…
— Bo Jackson
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A ceiling fixture that places a floating assembly of large pebbles below a simple modern aluminum disc. These in turn…
— Ross Lovegrove
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Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.
— Nicole Hollander
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I dont have aluminum foil on my windows anymore.
— Rick James
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The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives…
— Ernest K. Gann
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My father is the Hollywood equivalent of a clean, fillet-brazed frame. My brother is like one of those fat-tubed aluminum…
— Emilio Estevez
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What do you call that nice, shiny white metal they use to make sidings and airplanes out of? Aluminum, right?…
— Isaac Asimov
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It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That…
— Robert L. Devaney
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We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic…
— Dmitri Mendeleev
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I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a…
— Joseph Epstein
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Why go to a church to worship God? A church is man made. God never said, "And let there be…
— Tim Allen
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They've got plastic Christmas trees now. They're hard to tell from the real aluminum ones.
— Milton Berle
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