More From Umberto Eco
- "A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."
- "The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it."
- "Translation is the art of failure."
More In Mom
- "Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house."― Elizabeth Warren
- "My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice."― Sholom Aleichem
- "I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, ‘No, you just have anxiety.’"― Jessica Chastain