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. 90% problems of line can be solved by dropping them and remaining 10& can be solved by effort

Nitin Yaduvanshi

#6. There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Joyce Meyer

#7. I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

A.S. Byatt

#8. I remember the way his eyes pinned my body against the backdrop of Paris as if I was some rare butterfly pinned to an exhibit box.

Rebecca Paula

#9. If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired.

Sherwin Wine

#10. Who cares what we dream about? Just getting through each day is hard enough.

Inio Asano

#11. People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.

Al Michaels

#12. I've never seen an old person cry like this. The sadness from life is supposed to be folded inside an old person, not streaming out. - Iris from Crossing the Tracks

Barbara Stuber

#13. In addition, human beings have, in the most recent few tenths of a percent of our existence, invented not only extra-genetic but also extrasomatic knowledge: information stored outside our bodies, of which writing is the most notable example.

Carl Sagan

#14. Fate can be a dirty bitch, though

Rose Wynters

#15. When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

#16. I've lived with women, loved women, lost women. They've loved me, lost me, whatever.

Stephen Adly Guirgis