"My father was an accountant and his father……" — Umberto Eco
"My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer."
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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 Accountant Quotes
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one of 91 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living…
— Russell Banks
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The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.
— Milton Berle
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It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate…
— Alain de Botton
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Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in…
— Harvey Mackay
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The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven,…
— Ernest Newman
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When I asked my accountant if anything could get me out of this mess I am in now he thought…
— Robert Morley
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My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was possible for him, and so…
— Jim Carrey
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If you want to be a top athlete you have to be a little bit wild, not be an accountant.
— Unknown Author
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I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics,…
— Gerry Harvey
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If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player…
— Jack Welch
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Money is not worth dying for. I know, because years ago, while nearly a million dollars in debt, suicide was…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities…
— Edward Snowden
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