Umberto Eco Hyperreality Quotes & Sayings

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans. — Marian Wright Edelman

I start to see that I surround myself with broken people; more broken than me. Ah, yes, let me count your cracks. Let's see, one hundred, two ... yes, you'll do nicely. A cracked companion makes me look more whole, gives me something outside myself to care for. When I'm with whole, healed people I feel my own cracks, the shatters, the insanities of dislocation in myself. — Julie Gregory

There's nothing that I buy that I don't wear. — Katie Price

[She was] sitting across from us, her legs pressed together to one side, like a slash mark. Pretty/professional. — Gillian Flynn

It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work. — Amartya Sen

jeans jacket, catching him in a chokehold, pistol at — Donna Tartt

I love it. It's something I can do that makes everything else disappear. — Gina Carano

Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it. Anonymous — Dan Millman

Homeland defense doesn't generate any force requirements beyond having enough National Guard to save lives in natural disasters and to baby-sit nuclear power plants on Code Red days. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

All cities are geological and three steps cannot be taken without encountering ghosts. — Ivan Chtcheglov

What separates a great dream chaser from a good one is the volume of value that is given. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

THERE'S OLD SORROW in your blood like second nature and new sorrow that maddens the halls of sense. Causes — Sebastian Barry

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. — James Lane Allen

What if heredity, instead of linear, is branching? What if it's not arousal that's so finitely circumscribed? What if in fact there were only like two really distinct individual people walking back there in history's mist? That all difference descends from this difference? The whole and the partial. The damaged and the intact. The deformed and the paralyzingly beautiful. The insane and the attendant. The hidden and the blindingly open. The performer and the audience. No Zen-type one, always rather two, one upside down in a convex lens. — David Foster Wallace

The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes. — Curt Weldon