Quotes About Spanish

There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet.

QUERENCIA: The word doesn't translate. It is used in Spanish to designate that mysterious little area in the bullring that catches the fancy of the fighting bull when he charges in. He imagines it his sanctuary: when parked there, he supposes he cannot be hurt. . . . So it is, borrowing the term, that one can speak of one's "querencia" to mean that little, unspecified area in life's arena where one feels safe, serene.

No offense against moral order was too trivial to escape the attention of the Spanish Inquisition.

En otras palabras, vive prisionero de su casticismo, completamente poseído por su lenguaje de camarero español, por su terrible habla tradicional y desacomplejada, que parece que tenga que ser la única normal, la única eternamente auténtica de aquí a cien mil leguas a la redonda.

Psalm 73," said Postmartin. "The motto of the Spanish Inquisition." "Well, fuck me," said Seawoll. "I wasn't expecting them.

The motto of the Spanish Inquisition." "Well, fuck me," said Seawoll. "I wasn't expecting them.

Exurge domine et judica causum tuam," said Nightingale. " 'Arise, O God, judge thy own cause.' " "Psalm 73," said Postmartin. "The motto of the Spanish Inquisition." "Well, fuck me," said Seawoll. "I wasn't expecting them.

INTRODUCTION The very acute and lively Spanish critic who signs himself Clarin, and is known personally as Don Leopoldo Alas, says the present Spanish novel has no yesterday, but only a day-before-yesterday.

Here in Missouri, the women shop at Target, they make diligent, comforting meals, they laugh about how little high school Spanish they remember.

My own father was a refugee from the Spanish civil war in the 1930s, later going on to become a BBC radio producer after World War II.

'The Lair of the White Worm' is quite a strange film. It's difficult to be good when you're saying lines that have been translated from Spanish to English by someone who speaks French.

When I sing in Spanish, my tone is different. I feel more relaxed because that's how I speak to my family.

I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It was the capital of South America; it was where the Spanish founded their empire and took over the Inca Empire and made it into a colony of Spain.

American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.

The Spanish for 'vacuum' is aspiradora.

In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

Los españoles cargaron con la vajilla y las mujeres y destruyeron el Gran Teocali. Destruyeron además la sociedad azteca, que estuvo dividida en las siguientes clases: nobles, sacerdotes, guerreros, mercaderes, macehuales y esclavos; e hicieron una nueva división: vencedores y vencidos, que se conservó, aunque con otros nombres, hasta el tiempo de Porfirio Díaz, en el que estas dos clases sociales se llamaron, respectivamente, 'la gente decente y los pelados'.

Era un asunto embrollado: el español era Topete, a quien en el cantón conocíamos como «Eligio», para no tener que decirle Eligio de Puta.

I've always loved the dialogue that Pedro Almodovar writes.

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa." "What does it mean?" "You're beautiful.

I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.

a crucial element of English success was their commanders' ability to learn on the fly, make adjustments, and attempt new tactics. The Spanish paid a heavy price for their lack of equal flexibility.