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Quotes by Mexican Authors

"Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much."

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."

"I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake."

"Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me."

"Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days."

"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being."

"True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together."

"In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent."

"I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead."

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."

"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."

"If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young."

"You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring."

"All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo."

"I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion."

"Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers."

"I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it."

"I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now."

"Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico."

"Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror."

"There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival."

"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."

"My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience."

"I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing."

"I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care."

"They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure."

"There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile."

"I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life."

"It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor."

"Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game."

"The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold."
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