Alejandro Jodorowsky The Holy Mountain Quotes

#1. Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

William Hamilton Maxwell

#2. With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

Ken Baumann

#3. If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#4. 'Santa Sangre' is the picture I love the best, myself, because 'El Topo' and 'The Holy Mountain' I made with my head, and 'Santa Sangre' I made with my feelings, with my heart. It's an emotional picture. And it's more real for me, that picture.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#5. Naoma, and to the rest of the world she was Um

Hisham Matar

#6. I'm always a bit disappointed when I've finished working on a book.

Chris Van Allsburg

#7. Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

Michael Korda

#8. George Harrison wanted to play the thief in 'Holy Mountain.'

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#9. I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.

Daniel Everett

#10. Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that creates empowerment.

Lysa TerKeurst

#11. You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.

Alejandro Jodorowsky