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 to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

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Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON كان رجال العهود الغابرة وسيمي الطلعة طويلي القامة و �...
UMBERTO ECO It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-mak...
BILL VIOLA It's true I didn't get a fair trial, but the problem is people don't understand the deta...
CHEN SHUI-BIAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an exe...
CAROL LEIFER When I started, I'd hear other people saying, 'God, she's so bizarre-looking,' becau...
ALEK WEK My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young t...
AARON SORKIN Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who...
DENNIS MILLER When we were doing the cheerleading for this, I was excited about doing it because I always wanted t...
CHRISTINA MILIAN The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being...
DAVID CRANE Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedia...
NATASHA LEGGERO The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've wi...
PAUL CEZANNE 'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as...
ORHAN PAMUK The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a ...
RICHARD LAGRAVENESE I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27.
OLIVIER THEYSKENS I started doing a half-hour Sunday night talk show on college radio station KUNV. That excited me mo...
JIMMY KIMMEL Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into...
ROGER MICHELL When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We d...
ZAYN MALIK Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That ...
JIM JARMUSCH Beijing's Olympics were very grand - they were trying to throw a party for the world, but the ho...
AI WEIWEI The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn abo...
JACK HANNA I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any ...
TAMORA PIERCE After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I...
TRACY LETTS I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrat...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge th...
LEONARD COHEN People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. &...
TIM SCHAFER I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven'...
DAVID SMALL We knew from the very beginning that this was a Soviet crime. There were letters (from the detention...
ANDRZEJ WAJDA After my film 'The Tale of Two Sisters,' I received a lot of offers from Hollywood to direct...
KIM JEE-WOON People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of 'Hitchhiker's,' and I thought, 'No, no.' I di...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they ...
JAM MASTER JAY I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control becau...
TERRY GILLIAM I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My fi...
T.I. Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made ...
FLORENZ ZIEGFELD It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with ...
CUBA GOODING, JR. You have a plantation where you have 10 white people and you have about 50 or 60 black people. The a...
ALDIS HODGE I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand t...
ROGER EBERT I was a guy back in the Eighties who was one movie away from a huge career, which at that time didn&...
DENNIS QUAID My parents were distrustful of the outside world. They didn't think much good came out of it... ...
KEVIN WILSON In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's ...
NEIL GAIMAN In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my p...
SANDRA OH I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest respo...
FAY WRAY If it were said that I didn't fulfil my potential as a mother and wife, I'd be heartbroken. ...
DIANA RIGG Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think...
BARBARA BROCCOLI I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I know a lot of people didn't understand why I came back, and people are still going to say it w...
COBI JONES Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for ...
FIONA MCINTOSH In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for...
G. WILLOW WILSON When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers...
A. E. HOTCHNER I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want...
RIC OCASEK I'm really not a great businessperson. I understand business, and I understand numbers, but I th...
MARCUS LEMONIS It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II There were times I wouldn't come to practice, because it didn't excite me. It wasn't int...
MICHAEL PHELPS I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an em...
BILL CALLAHAN I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't ...
LAPO ELKANN I think the most important thing to understand about credit derivatives and their use at JPMorgan is...
BLYTHE MASTERS When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worke...
JAMES FRANCO There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'He...
REBECCA HALL I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was ...
WAYNE COYNE I didn't really start building my own stuff until I was 24, 25 or so, and even then, I ran into ...
DENNIS CROWLEY After my wife and I were married, we obtained a rescue dog from a family that didn't want her an...
BOB PETERSON The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
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UMBERTO ECO The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,
the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improve...
UMBERTO ECO The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more ev...
UMBERTO ECO The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.
UMBERTO ECO Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep...
UMBERTO ECO For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded ...
UMBERTO ECO The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are th...
UMBERTO ECO I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our ba...
UMBERTO ECO And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most lovi...
UMBERTO ECO All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are...
UMBERTO ECO But why do some people support [the heretics]?"
"Because it serves their purposes, which conce...
UMBERTO ECO In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a...
UMBERTO ECO There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I...
UMBERTO ECO But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of tho...
UMBERTO ECO لا أعرف شيئا ليس هناك شيئ أعلمه .و إنما بعض الأشياء يحسه...
UMBERTO ECO ...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy...
UMBERTO ECO We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could l...
UMBERTO ECO This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the...
UMBERTO ECO How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by
the often perverse wisdom of man!
UMBERTO ECO Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.
UMBERTO ECO A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a nove...
UMBERTO ECO كان رجال العهود الغابرة وسيمي الطلعة طويلي القامة و �...
UMBERTO ECO True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in...
UMBERTO ECO Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same ...
UMBERTO ECO We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
UMBERTO ECO Love is wiser than wisdom.
UMBERTO ECO Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now...
UMBERTO ECO Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in ev...
UMBERTO ECO the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most ...
UMBERTO ECO American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100
degrees centigrade in pla...
UMBERTO ECO The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of d...
UMBERTO ECO Priešas turi būti atpažįstamas ir baisus, jis turi būti tavo namuose arba prie durų slenksčio...
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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 to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

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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 to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

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