Umberto Eco
Related DEYTH BANGER I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts c... NALO HOPKINSON I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is real... SAM JAEGER ROB BELL THOMAS PAINE In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story t... GEOFF RYMAN It's a story that has not been told, the story of the daily musician, EUGENE RODRIGUEZ I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very... BEV PERDUE I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and ... BEV PERDUE I believe that filmmakers have to internalize the story and subtext so well that all of the departme... SHANE CARRUTH I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they'... LISA SCOTTOLINE JANE AUSTEN Hearing a story awakens the mythic story living in each of us. It places us in a “mythic condition... MICHAEL MEADE A book is an invitation to enter another person's mind and heart. JAIME CONTRERAS The Greatest Story He Never Told' is what the book should have been called. KIM ADAMS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES It continues to give a negative feeling that the story is an off-again story. It's been difficult, b... JOE CANGEMI But there's always a story behind the story. That's how the story never ends: Someone is always tell... ARI BERK & CAROLYN DUNN I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after read... LAURIE R. KING ENID BLYTON Their story would not have been told had Jill not been there. KAREN LIST The stories of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Golden Gate already had been well-told by others, both on... JAMES TOBIN BRIAN SELZNICK JANE AUSTEN He felt like the true story hadn't been told because it had been told in a one-sided way. And that's... DARRYL FRANK ROBERT BROWNING Writers are not obliged to deal with current events, but it happens that the big story of our times ... GEOFF DYER DEJAN STOJANOVIC I told him because I wanted what everybody wants—to be known. To know oneself, and to tell the who... JAN ELLISON I read his books back in high school and through college. I just always thought he was a fascinating... DAVID HOUSTON CHRISTINE KEELER JACKIE COLLINS I always think that's neat, when you can hear a story told from different points of view, differ... JASON ISBELL My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgo... ALBERTO MANGUEL PATRICK ROTHFUSS ADAM HAMILTON Every villain needs her story told. ABBI GLINES I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young ch... EMILY GIFFIN GEORGE LUCAS Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so. CHRISTOPHER B. KREBS JEAN HANFF KORELITZ OSCAR WILDE NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB JOAN CRAWFORD Great theater continues to bind us, one to the other, and most of us will travel far and wide to see... KENNY LEON The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everyth... RENE DENFELD Books have always been an important part of my life. JASMINE GUINNESS REX STOUT ROBERT M. DRAKE It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl... EUDORA WELTY I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I? EDGAR BERGEN This is the real story. This has always been about our community, our employees, and the loyal custo... BETTY BRADY significance , while a story mus... VERA NAZARIAN FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE GEORGE TAKEI JOYCE RACHELLE ALICE SEBOLD He always told us to envision the ball going into the net. You have to believe that you'll win. That... JEF FLOURNOY OLIVIA SUDJIC There have always been books published for teens that push the margins, KATHLEEN HORNING CASSANDRA CLARE DAVID EAGLEMAN I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I? EDGAR BERGEN HASKELL WEXLER JOHN WATERS I thought that, post-apartheid, there would be absolutely no interest in South Africa. That has been... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot o... JOEL SCHUMACHER I get very tired of books that feel emotionally empty. I would much rather have writers err on the s... ALEXI ZENTNER FERNANDO FLORES I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL I always loved comic books when I was growing up, and Spider-Man was definitely a character I gravit... DRAKE BELL ROB THURMAN HOMER CHINA MIéVILLE the story I delivered to the public in China and outside of China is a story of 'never again.' LIU MINGKANG CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets. JAMES STEWART From every stumble, I've walked forward again. From every roadblock, I’ve found a new trail. For e... STEVE THOMPSON American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100UMBERTO ECO ROLF HARRIS JEANETTE WINTERSON Our client is a bit confused, although the translator had already told her that it was a life senten... HAPOSAN SIHOMBING Every tattoo tells a story for each person. Some people have been sober for five years and want to s... DARRIN WALTERS I walked into investor offices and told a three-part story: We have a good market, the right product... JASON GOLDBERG The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning. JOHN LEE HOOKER CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN We're always getting different stories, and lately we've been kept totally in the dark nobody has to... CAROL NIHUS MARY ELLEN MARK MARGARET ATWOOD I can't speak for every family member, but as far as I know, the family members who have seen the fi... DAVID BEAMER CHRIS COLFER IMANIA MARGRIA RYAN COOGLER He turned and looked at Henry. “Did you always know that you would write all these books?” “I ... COLM TóIBíN I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read the... GAIL Z. MARTIN Writers witnessing actors read their stories will often come away very confused because they'll have... BILL BUFORD KIERA CASS DENIS LEARY It's really been marvelous to watch the subtle organic transition. It's an aesthetic decision... And... IAN CALDERON VANESSA HUDGENS
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UMBERTO ECO People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged. UMBERTO ECO The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. UMBERTO ECO Beauty is boring because it is predictable. UMBERTO ECO The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitt... UMBERTO ECO To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on you... UMBERTO ECO In this new book, I open with a Hebrew quotation nobody is able to understand. This is in order to s... UMBERTO ECO I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't ... UMBERTO ECO The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us... UMBERTO ECO Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another. UMBERTO ECO Show not what has been done, but what can be. 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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 100UMBERTO 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... UMBERTO ECO
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The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that w... 
With respect to the books of the New Testament, particularly such parts as tell us of the resurrecti... 
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much ... 
I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, ... 
I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and ... 
And I have written three books on the soul,
Proving absurd all written hitherto,
And putting u... 
Description is a story well told already; experience offers truth. 
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that wou... 
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The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is ... 
I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's j... 
The fact is, that I told him a story with a moral.” “Ah! that is always a very dangerous thing t... 
The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and... 
I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form. 
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Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story. 
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Books. It's always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the pu... 
Every time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. 
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One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power... 
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Professional cinema image-taking should integrate, serve, interest, and enhance the story. I judge c... 
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It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told. 
Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and... 
I have personal knowledge that Mr. Blumenthal recounted to other people in the journalistic communit... 
I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was ... 
...what he told himself on those sea-soaked nights...Others joined in and it was discovered that eve... 
I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again li... 
In every successful still photographic project that I have completed, there has always been a turnin... 
I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'N... 
A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told. 
Grab every chance given and do not throw it away; always cherish what you already have, for you neve... 
I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come up... 
Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year,... 
It's always great to get word that you've been picked up for another season, ... We're really hittin... 
I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my t... 