Latin famous quotes

With 'Timbiriche,' I toured Brazil and a lot of Latin America.
-- Paulina Rubio

#Latin #America #Brazil

I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.
-- Paz Vega

#Latin #Play #Roles

We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.
-- Penelope Lively

#Latin #Museums #Lexicon

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."
-- Peter Brodie

#Nice #Latin #Attraction

There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.
-- Peter Brodie

#Wisdom #Latin #Knowledge

I loved Latin -- the grammar, the difficult tenses, the history -- but for some reason I was very bad at it, shamefully and blushingly bad at it. ... In moments of stress the embarrassment of how bad I was at Latin -- a subject I loved -- really hit me. It was like being laughed at by someone you desperately loved.
-- Peter Greenaway

#Stress #Latin #Moments

Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one and cornu,a horn. A fabulous animal resembling a horse with one horn.
-- Peter S. Beagle

#Horse #Latin #Animal

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?
-- Philippa Gregory

#Latin #Dozen #May

The word humility (also human) is derived from the Latin humus, meaning the soil. Perhaps this is not simply because it entails stooping and returning to earthly origins, but also because, as we are rooted in this earth of everyday life, we find in it all the vitality and fertility unnoticed by people who merely tramp on across the surface, drawn by distant landscapes.
-- Piero Ferrucci

#Latin #Humility #People

War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.
-- Pindar

#Sweet #Latin #War

It's a bad plan that can't be changed.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Latin #Changed #Plans

Where there is unity, there is the victory.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Latin #Unity #Victory

Even one hair has a shadow.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Latin #Hair #Shadow

You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)
-- Rachel Caine

#Smart #Latin #Glasses

I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Latin #Singers #Wells

Since the Cuban Revolution and since the invasion of Santo Domingo a state of emergency has existed in Latin America. The Marines shoot at anything that moves, regardless of partyaffiliation.
-- Regis Debray

#Latin #Moving #Marine

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.
-- Ricardo Montalban

#Latin #Wings #Actors

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from the latin mundus, meaning 'the world'. And the world is anything but dull: The world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
-- Richard Dawkins

#Real #Latin #Mean

English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.
-- Richard Lederer

#Latin #Vocabulary #Way

Jason scratched his head. "You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, ‘festus’ means ‘happy’? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?
-- Rick Riordan

#Latin #Mean #Dragons

I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.
-- Ricky Martin

#Country #Latin #America

Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism.
-- Rigoberta Menchu

#Zoos #Latin #Past

The goal of Latin American unity is highly ephemeral. Each country has its own set of goals and very different sets of leaders.
-- Riordan Roett

#Country #Latin #Goal

At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.
-- Rita Levi-Montalcini

#Latin #Father #School

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.
-- Rita Ora

#Latin #Descent #Mistaken

I came, I saw, she conquered." The original Latin seems to have been garbled.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Latin #Saws

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.
-- Robert Fitzgerald

#Latin #Greek #Different

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
-- Robert Fitzgerald

#Latin #Vocabulary #Use

When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking the dog is in truth a ritual of renewal and revival on an intimate scale - a small rebirth of well-being on a daily basis.
-- Robert Fulghum

#Dog #Latin #Simplicity

It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around twenty years old when Salvador Allende died.
-- Roberto Bolano

#Real #Latin #Eye

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.
-- Robin Williams

#Latin #Politics #Tics

"...piling up zeros in your bank account, or cars in your driveway, won't in and of itself make you successful. Rather, true success is based on a constant flow of giving and recieving. In fact, if you look up affluence in the dictionary, you'll see its root is a Latin phrase meaning "to flow with abundance". So in order to be truly affluent, you must always let what you have recieved flow back into the world."
-- Russell Simmons

#Business #Latin #Successful

I grew up in a big ol' Latin family, so that's all the music we used to play - salsa music. We'd always dance and have fun. You know how families get down, man! We just had fun with it.
-- Ryan Guzman

#Fun #Latin #Men

Any Latin dance, whether it be salsa, cha cha, samba, etc., is very sexy for me to see a woman do. Using your hips is the key.
-- Ryan Guzman

#Sexy #Latin #Keys

In Miami, there's a Latin flavor, and I just love every bit of it.
-- Ryan Guzman

#Latin #Miami #Flavor

That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.
-- Saint Patrick

#Latin #Believe #Doe

Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.
-- Sam Francis

#Real #Latin #Blood

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.
-- Sanford I. Weill

#Latin #Thinking #Discipline

I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.
-- Sarah Fielding

#Marriage #Husband #Latin

As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.
-- Scott McCloud

#Latin #Book #Pigs

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.
-- Sebastian Arcelus

#Latin #America #Political

I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my mother's been married twice, and both men were Uruguayan. So I grew up in a very European/Latin American-influenced home.
-- Sebastian Arcelus

#Mother #Latin #Father

I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.
-- Sebastian Pinera

#Latin #Mistake #America

I must confess the language of symbols is to me A Babylonish dialect Which learned chemists much affect; It is a party-coloured dress Of patch'd and piebald languages: 'T is English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian heretofore on satin.
-- Sir Richard Phillips

#Latin #Party #Cutting

Latin women are very comfortable with their bodies and their sexuality. We aren't afraid to show that off a little bit more.
-- Sofia Vergara

#Latin #Body #Littles

I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek.
-- Sofia Vergara

#Latin #Ignorance #Hair

In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.
-- Sofia Vergara

#Latin #Believe #America

I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women.
-- Sofia Vergara

#Latin #Tv Shows #Perfect

Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference.
-- Sofia Vergara

#Dance #Latin #Differences

Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my colleagues in other fields that I was interested in things outside mathematics. This lead quickly to very pleasant relationships.
-- Stanislaw Ulam

#Memories #Latin #Civilization

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
-- Stephen Leacock

#Latin #Professors

I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms
-- Stephen Stills

#Latin #School #Years

The Patriarch Joseph, after agreeing with the Latins that their formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Son meant the same as the Greek formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding through the Son, fell ill and died. An unkind scholar remarked that after muddling his prepositions what else could he decently do?
-- Steven Runciman

#Latin #Son #Greek

Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy - it comes from the Latin word calculus, meaning a pebble used for counting. To enjoy working with numbers you don't have to be Einstein (German for "one stone"), but it might help to have rocks in your head.
-- Steven Strogatz

#Latin #Math #Rocks

No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.
-- Stuart Sherman

#Latin #Errors #Roots

Sometimes when I get home after a long day, I'll turn on music - I love Latin, disco, and pop - and do my own workout, even if it's a short one. Know a good song to work out to? 'I Will Survive.
-- Summer Glau

#Song #Workout #Latin

I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.
-- Suzanne Farrell

#Latin #Interesting #People

Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Latin #Ships #Worship

Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in unison, a glory and a connection that sweeps her out of herself, out of her consciousness, so that nothing has a name, not in Latin, not in English, not in any known language.
-- T.C. Boyle

#Latin #Names #Connections

The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European does, no social ideal or sacred constitution as the North American does, no pervasive mythology to soften life as it does in Asia, and no even an ideology to subscribe to, as does the Russian or Chinese. Without wealth, what is there left to him but his manhood, to be flaunted and defended at every occasion?
-- Ted Simon

#Latin #Fall #Rights

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.
-- Terri Windling

#Latin #Long #Magic

I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

#Sports #Football #Latin

Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Latin #Poet #Satire

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Latin #Book #Years

I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Latin #Selfishness

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.
-- Tim Blake Nelson

#Latin #Philosophy #Civilization

I'm from East Sheen, I went to public school where I learned Latin at the age of nine, and certain expectations were made of me to go to St Paul's, Oxbridge maybe, and all that kind of thing. And I failed systematically to meet the mark - who I am and what I should have been are two very different things.
-- Tom Hardy

#Latin #School #Who I Am

The word "question" originates from the Latin root, quaestio, which means "to seek." Inside the word "question" is the word "quest," suggesting that within every question is an adventure, a pursuit which can lead us to hidden treasure.
-- Tom Wujec

#Latin #Mean #Adventure

I love the dancing and the music from Latin cultures. I went to a Flamenco show in Spain once, and it completely took my breath away!
-- Torrey DeVitto

#Latin #Dancing #Culture

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.
-- Travis Barker

#Beach #Latin #Band

My daughter took Latin for three years; she still cant speak it.
-- Trey Gowdy

#Daughter #Latin #Years

I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.
-- Tricia Helfer

#Latin #Thinking #Trying

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
-- Umberto Eco

#Country #Latin #Successful

I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don't think that I was that literal.
-- Vera Wang

#Latin #Struggle #Thinking

People always ask me, 'Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?' Like everyone has to be on one team. If you're a Selena Gomez fan, you can't be a Victoria Justice fan. We're both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.
-- Victoria Justice

#Stars #Latin #Team

I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.
-- Victoria Justice

#Friday #Latin #Waiting

If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.
-- Virgil

#Latin #Years #Jupiter

What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.
-- Virgil

#Latin #Race #Found

Is there so much anger in the minds of the gods?
-- Virgil

#Latin #Mind

At first critics classified authors as Ancients, that is to say, Greek and Latin authors, and Moderns, that is to say, every post-Classical Author. Then they classified them by eras, the Augustans, the Victorians, etc., and now they classify them by decades, the writers of the '30's, '40's, etc. Very soon, it seems, they will be labeling authors, like automobiles, by the year.
-- W. H. Auden

#Latin #Years #Greek

Believe! An old Latin proverb reads: "Believe that you have it and you have it."
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Confidence #Latin #Believe

The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.
-- William Hague

#Latin #America #Economy

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Women #Latin #Thinking

The term power comes from the Latin posse- to do, to be able, to change, to influence or effect. To have power is to possess the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must make use of power. The central issue of power in leadership is not Will it be used? But rather Will it be used wisely and well?
-- Al Gini

#Latin #Issues #Use Of Power

Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.
-- Alan Thein Durning

#Latin #Rain #Land

I would be happy if I could meet some musicians interested in different acoustics and traditional music. Maybe I will find some Native American or Latin tunes. Anything. Even maybe a great heavy metal guitar player or drummer, and we can do something wild together. My next step is making more music without formats or borders. Not just simple songs or doing covers, but music with more ideas. I think it will again be a synthesis with something else.
-- Albert Kuvezin

#Song #Latin #Native American

In building up a democratic model I think that Cuba's contribution, little by little, has contributed to getting closer to the ideals of those philosophers, of those Greeks who thought about how a society could be fairer, how a society could really represent the interests of the people. We have tried to get closer to that from a Latin-American perspective and from the Cuban perspective.
-- Alejandro Castro Espin

#Latin #Thinking #Building Up

The United States turned to repression when its prominence started to slip in Latin America through establishing military dictatorships.
-- Alejandro Castro Espin

#Latin #Military #America

Cuba cannot go back to capitalism; we know all the tragic experience that it has generated for Latin America and the world. We also know the positive experiences of socialism not only in our geographic environment but also like what we are witnessing in China.
-- Alejandro Castro Espin

#Latin #America #Positive Experiences

If we are going to talk about the most recent of the "Indignados" movements in several countries of the world, including Europe, those are social movements but eventually they will evolve into political movements. This will happen because the traditional bourgeois parties have lost credibility after being the main political influence in most countries of Latin-America and Europe in the last 50 or 60 years.
-- Alejandro Castro Espin

#Country #Latin #Party

They didn't need to be specifically South American or Latin American. Instead we discovered we were talking about human beings in general. We realized that these are not issues only pertinent to Latin America: poverty, misery, consumerism, etc.
-- Alex Abreu

#Latin #America #Issues

The world's geography is not realistic. Geography is not real. Borders are only closed to people but they are open to products. There is another type of geography outside of this matrix. Because of this we noticed we were talking about much more than just Latin America. That was very important to put the film on another level. Based on this idea, we knew that we were not in this world any longer.
-- Alex Abreu

#Latin #Real #Ideas

We discovered this halfway through the process. When we started making the film there were some lines of dialogue in Portuguese, but we then changed our minds. The film started from very specific issues in the world, in particular Latin America, but halfway through the journey we felt the necessity to have more universal ideas that were not so specific.
-- Alex Abreu

#Latin #Journey #America

Of course each citizen should try to educate him or herself, but only after receiving some essential, basic blocks of knowledge. Formal education should always be free; from kindergarten to PhD. It is free in many European countries, and in several Latin American ones (including Cuba, Mexico and Argentina). China is returning to free education, as it is returning to universal health care. In countries like Chile, people are on the streets right now fighting for free education, and they are winning!
-- Andre Vltchek

#Country #Block #Latin

The people of Indonesia have to learn, realize, that fighting for a better country is great and inspiring. Like those men, women, and even children in Latin America understood many decades ago! Young people especially, should know: Rebellion is good. Revolution is good. Thinking is good. Progress is good. To be a revolutionary, a rebel, is cool - very cool. Much cooler than driving a red or yellow Ferrari bought with the money your daddy has stolen from the poor!
-- Andre Vltchek

#Country #Children #Latin

Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), had been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against the native population of North America, barbaric wars of aggression against Mexico, and other Latin American countries, the Philippines, etc. Has anything changed now? I highly doubt it.
-- Andre Vltchek

#Country #War #Latin

Culture has to be constantly on the vanguard, too. It should be educating people, as it does in Latin America: thousands of great theatres, art cinemas, millions of free books distributed by the governments, public poetry readings, free public lectures, and all sorts of bookstores are open until early mornings, exhibitions reacting to the needs and sorrows of society, concerts of engaged music.
-- Andre Vltchek

#Art #Morning #Latin

Comrade [Rafael] Correa gets it right, most of the time. This is new, 'final' offensive of the Empire in Latin America.
-- Andre Vltchek

#Latin #America #Finals

Nothing exceptional [would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton's presidency] - things would stay the same: sponsorship of "Color" or "Umbrella" or whatever "revolutions", some more coups, "regime changes", direct invasions, bombing, propaganda warfare against China, Russia, Iran, South Africa and what is left of the Latin American revolutions. There would be plenty of torture in "secret centers", but it would not be as advertised and glorified as it would be if [Donald] Trump were elected.
-- Andre Vltchek

#Latin #Russia #Iran

The way Spain has now behaved in Catalonia, after the referendum, is a total disgrace. If this continues, it will all reach the point of no return. You cannot start sexually harassing women and then break their fingers, one by one, because they want to have their own state. You cannot injure hundreds of innocent people, who simply don't want to be governed from Madrid. That's absurd and thoroughly sick! Spain used to commit holocausts all over what is now called Latin America, so it is 'in their blood'. But I don't think Catalans will allow this to be done to them.
-- Andre Vltchek

#Latin #Thinking #People