Fernando > Fernando's Quotes

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar: Self-Reliance, Compensation

“Quant'é bella giovinezza
Che si fugge tuttavia
Chi vuol esser lieto, sia;
Di doman non c'é certezza”
― Lorenzo de' Medici

“[El placer de comer] es un placer que hay que descubrir a los treinta años. Es la edad en que el ser humano deja de ser un imbécil y a cambio paga el precio de empezar a envejecer.”
― Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Los Mares Del Sur

“What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Listen:”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.”
― Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy