A Quote by Umberto Eco

We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.

Umberto Eco

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Clever Enough Laundry List Poetry Turn Were

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Umberto Eco
Italian - Novelist
January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016

So silently, peacefully, without hurry, without any tension, without any anguish, move into yourself instantly. It is urgent. Unless meditation becomes urgent to you, it will never happen; you will die before it. Put meditation on your laundry list as the most important, urgent... number one. But meditation in your life is just at the very end of your laundry list - and the laundry list goes on becoming bigger and bigger. And before you finish your laundry list, you are finished, so the time for meditation never comes.

Rajneesh

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

Fannie Hurst

If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.

Dana Brunetti

I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to actually enjoy it.

Wallace Shawn

If all the good people were clever And all the clever people were good The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. But somehow, 'tis seldom or ner The two hit it off as they should The good are so harsh to the clever The clever so rude to the good!

Elizabeth Wordsworth

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

Eleanor Catton

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

Israel Zangwill

Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.

Gioachino Rossini

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Gioachino Rossini

I was pre-med at Glasgow University. I was from a family who were of the mind that if you were clever enough to be a doctor or a lawyer, why wouldn't you be?

John Tiffany

a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

Charlotte Bunch

But don't worry; as I've been saying - and this has been very clever of me, I'm sure you'll agree - if you put enough pressure on coal, it'll turn to pearls!