Fernando Lopez-Amill > Fernando's Quotes

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

“Everybody must have a fantasy.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.”
― Andy Warhol

“In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.”
― Andy Warhol

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

“Texts are not finished objects.”
― Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”
― Émile Zola

“I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.”
― Robert Gottlieb

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
― Edgar Mitchell

“The classics can console. But not enough.”
― Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes

“I read; I travel; I become”
― Derek Walcott