Foucault S Pendulum Quotes

#1. It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Umberto Eco

#2. Wherever you put it, Foucault's Pendulum swings from a motionless point while the earth rotates beneath it. Every point of the universe is a fixed point: all you have to do is hang the Pendulum from it.

Umberto Eco

#3. I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.

Umberto Eco

#4. Foucault's pendulum would

Anthony Doerr

#5. Perhaps she just needed to remind herself more often how that gold was still floating above her head, it's minuscule particles visible only when pierced by a certain light.

Francesca Marciano

#6. Playing God is as dangerous for God as it is for humans.

George Hammond

#7. Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you're just as human as they are. That's when the madness sets in. They can't understand why you have more than they do when you're just a regular human being the same as them. Then they hate you for it. (Leta)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

Tori Amos

#9. The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

Philip Berrigan

#10. There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing.

Joan Didion

#11. Curiosity, irreverence, imagination, sense of humor, a free and open mind, an acceptance of the relativity of values and of the uncertainty of life, all inevitably fuse into the kind of person whose greatest joy is creation.

Saul D. Alinsky