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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9cb0032 | I know nothing. There is nothing that I know. But the heart senses certain things. Let your heart speak, question faces, do not listen to tongues. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 28974fa | A daily newspaper is destined to become like a weekly magazine. We'll be talking about what might happen tomorrow, with feature articles, investigative supplements, unexpected predictions... | Umberto Eco | ||
| 50a9b13 | The book has to give the idea of another kind of newspaper, has to show how I labored away for a year to create a model of journalism independent of all pressure, implying that the venture failed because it was impossible to have a free voice | Umberto Eco | ||
| daf8308 | The Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. | devil faith truth | Umberto Eco | |
| 8573fd1 | Those whom you cannot love you should, rather, fear. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 567157b | In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro" (T. Kempis)" | Umberto Eco | ||
| 07e1788 | La seule chose qu'on ecrit pour soi, c'est la liste des courses. Elle sert a vous rappeler ce que vous devez acheter, et une fois vos achats accomplis, vous pouvez la jeter car elle ne sert plus a personne. Tout ce que vous ecrivez d'autre, vous l'ecrivez pour dire quelque chose a quelqu'un. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 19b04b1 | So, Colonna, please demonstrate to our friends how it's possible to respect, or appear to respect, one fundamental principle of democratic journalism, which is separating fact from opinion. ...' 'Simple,' I said. 'Take the major British or American newspapers. If they report, say, a fire or a car accident, then obviously they can't indulge in saying what they think. And so they introduce into the piece, in quotation marks, the statements of.. | journalism opinion | Umberto Eco | |
| 0cad04d | Qualcuno ha detto che il patriottismo e l'ultimo rifugio delle canaglie: chi non ha principi morali si avvolge di solito in una bandiera, e i bastardi si richiamano sempre alla purezza della loro razza. L'identita nazionale e l'ultima risorsa dei diseredati. Ora il senso dell'identita si fonda sull'odio, sull'odio per chi non e identico. Bisogna coltivare l'odio come passione civile. Il nemico e l'amico dei popoli. Ci vuole sempre qualcuno .. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 23bf19f | Librat nuk jane bere per tu besuar, por per t'u hetuar. Kur lexojme nje liber nuk duhet te pyesim veten cfare thote, por cfare nenkupton | shqip umberto-eco | Umberto Eco | |
| 2b035db | Rachel Ries is a wonderful singer/performer/songwriter who writes her music with a literary and poetic style. In an interview with Rachel Ries listed some of her literary influences. You can listen to her perform at this site too, if you've never heard her before. Here is her list in the order she gave them: Al Kennedy - Umberto Eco - China Mieville - Everything by Tolkien Jeannette Winterson Dostoevsky - John Steinbeck - Willa Cathe.. | Rachel Ries | ||
| 739c7d3 | We usually believe that the tamer is attacked by the lion and that the tamer stops his attack by raising his whip or firing a blank. Wrong: the lion was fed and sedated before it entered the cage and doesn't feel like attacking anybody. Like all animals, it has its own space; if you don't invade that space, the lion remains calm. When the tamer steps forward, invading it, the lion roars; the tamer then raises his whip, but also takes a step.. | Umberto Eco | ||
| cce466d | The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. This library was perhaps born to save the books it houses, but now it lives to bury them. This is why it has become a sink of iniquity. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 5de524d | That man is ... odd," I dared say to William. "He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal. Ubertino" | Umberto Eco | ||
| c2294a3 | You must consider that the librarian (if not overworked or neurotic) is happy when he can demonstrate two things: the quality of his memory and erudition and the richness of his library, especially if it is small. The more isolated and disregarded the library, the more the librarian is consumed with sorrow for its underestimation. A person who asks for help makes the librarian happy. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 8821c66 | William made an ejaculation in his own language that I didn't understand, nor did the abbot understand it, and perhaps it was best for us both, because the word William uttered had an obscene hissing sound. | murder-mystery | Umberto Eco | |
| a12ae54 | when a man has little time, he must take care to maintain his calm. We must act as if we had eternity before us. | eternity keep-calm lack-of-time time | Umberto Eco | |
| 7b5d4e1 | Because reasoning about causes and effects is a very difficult thing, and I believe the only judge of that can be God. We are already hard put to establish a relationship between such an obvious effect as a charred tree and the lightning bolt that set fire to it, so to trace sometimes endless chains of causes and effects seems to me as foolish as trying to build a tower that will touch the sky. | cause-and-effect critical-reasoning reasoning tracing-cause-and-effect | Umberto Eco | |
| fcaa79e | lshkwk lyst 'bdan mGl@ , lshk , dy'man lshk , bhdhh lTryq@ wHdh tSl l~ lHqyq@ | doubting-mind الحقيقة الشك truth | Umberto Eco | |
| d01c862 | The others believed me wise because I won, but they didn't know the many instances in which I have been foolish because I lost, and they didn't know that a few seconds before winning I wasn't sure I wouldn't lose. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 8e17ac9 | Born as the raising to the nth power of that initial (and rational) waste that is sports recreation, sports chatter is the glorification of Waste, and therefore the maximum point of Consumption. On it and in it the consumer civilization man actually consumes himself (and every possibility of thematizing and judging the enforced consumption to which his is invited and subjected). | Umberto Eco | ||
| c60d386 | But chance has a taste for conspiracy. | conspiracy | Umberto Eco | |
| 0812d31 | Oswald's approach to the future was simple: "Trust God and do the next thing." | David McCasland | ||
| 29c41f2 | The Japanese say we have three faces. The first face, you show to the world. The second face, you show to your close friends and family. The third face, you never show anyone. It is the truest reflection of who you are.--Unknown | Mary Burton | ||
| 7bf62ea | We are not called to be successful in accordance with ordinary standards, but in accordance with a corn of wheat falling into the ground and dying, becoming in that way what it never could be if it were to abide alone. | David McCasland | ||
| 2fd5848 | No one, certainly no teenager, was normal or felt they were. Everyone wore a kind of mask that kept people from really seeing what - or who - was inside | Gregg Olsen | ||
| a45e253 | their stories, tell their tales, pose for pictures, and shake their heads for the TV cameras. As one high school student told the reporter from the Today show, "Nothing much ever happens around here, so this is kind of fun. Sad, but fun at the same time." | Gregg Olsen | ||
| a621e03 | And he'd kill Lily Ann Denton, put her in the trunkm and go to arbys. | Gregg Olsen | ||
| c6ae591 | You should have dragged my butt out of bed." "Your butt's too big to drag," Taylor said. | Gregg Olsen | ||
| 7104095 | She was only fifteen! What is the matter with these kids today? Can't they wait to have sex until they get their driver's license and can go somewhere? | Gregg Olsen | ||
| 98d9d03 | She looked at ways to quantify life. Analytic in nature, her head almost always overruled her heart. Love it? Hate it? She wanted to KNOW it. | understand | Gregg Olsen | |
| e39bc0f | Only in the campfire-stoked stories of Boy Scouts, bedtime tales baby-sitters employ to frighten bratty charges, or in the sweet delight of grandpas who never grew up, would the stories live on. | Gregg Olsen | ||
| 24aa8a8 | A state is a sovereign political entity like the United Kingdom, Kenya, Panama, or New Zealand, eligible for membership in the United Nations and inclusion on the maps produced by Rand McNally or the National Geographic Society. A nation is a group of people who share--or believe they share--a common culture, ethnic origin, language, historical experience, artifacts, and symbols. | Colin Woodard | ||
| 130bd9d | The modern principle of representation - that each individual should participate in the state - grew out of the forests of Germany and will eventually dominate the entire modern world (VD I, 533/203). | Frederick C. Beiser | ||
| f59ae02 | different sets of facial muscles--and therefore produce different-looking smiles. This divergence explains the difference between genuine smiles and fakey, say-cheese smiles in photographs. People have trouble faking other genuine expressions, too, like fear, surprise, or an interest in someone's pet stories. To overcome this limitation actors either drill with a mirror and practice conjuring up facial expressions a la Laurence Olivier, or,.. | Sam Kean | ||
| a70257e | Accordons-lui une plus grande capacite a comprendre et a parler le patois jamaiquain, une tolerance accrue pour la flamme vive du rhum blanc, et davantage de respect pour les difficultes qu'on rencontre lorsqu'on veut comprendre quelqu'un d'une autre culture, d'une autre race, d'une autre geographie, d'une autre economie et d'une autre langue - et cela meme alors que je me familiarisais tous les jours davantage avec les subtilites de cette .. | Russell Banks | ||
| f3c9361 | my blue eyes peering into their brown eyes and seeing there some essential part of myself, some irreducible aspect of my being, which in turn gave them back the same reflected version of themselves | Russell Banks | ||
| e2f5331 | THREE things to be VERY happy about: 1. The Tyra Banks show ROCKED! 2. My rash completely cleared up. 3. My parents think I'm a fourteen-year-old Rachael Ray. | Rachel Renée Russell | ||
| f3b103a | You must not obey a majority, no matter how large, if it opposes your principles and opinions.' He said this to each new volunteer and repeated it over and over to him, until it was engraved on his mind. 'The largest majority is often only an organized mob whose noise can no more change the false into the true than it can change black into white or night into day. And a minority, conscious of its rights, if those rights are based on moral p.. | Russell Banks | ||
| dfd71e2 | Father argued that society as a whole must come to be organized on a different basis than greed, for while material interests gained somewhat by the institutionalized deification of pure selfishness, ordinary men and women lost everything by it. | Russell Banks | ||
| 733f281 | I've got nothing against outsiders, per se, you understand. It's just that you have to love a town before you can live in it right, and you have to live in it before you can love it right. Otherwise, you're a parasite of sorts. | Russell Banks | ||
| b3f24e9 | Our obsession with each other was like the isolation that comes with great pain; it was like extreme sadness. Without our children we might have never discovered our differences, which is what has made our abiding love for each other possible. | Russell Banks | ||
| 4848679 | If you yourself are not a victim, you cannot claim to see the world as the victim does. | Russell Banks | ||
| 52b6067 | S]o many people look only to their bank balance for peace or to fellow human beings for models to follow. Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man? I had such a test decades ago when one of my medical faculty colleagues chastised me for failing to separate my professional knowledge from my religiou.. | religion science secular-knowledge truth | Russell M. Nelson |