Quotes About Conquistador

Wal-Mart's relationship to place has become so abstracted that the company views even its own stores through the conquistador's eyeglass. Like temporary forts built solely for purposes of territorial conquest, any one of them can be abandoned at any time.

After his assignment to Spain, Pétain had been nicknamed 'the conquistador.' Now there were snide references to 'le con qui se dort' (the asshole who sleeps).

But is he awake, or just drunk, dreaming of a voluptuous conquistador maiden polishing his sword?

I am not really a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, and not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador...with the curiosity, the boldness, and the tenacity that belong to that type of person.

I know a conquistador when I see one. I know all about making a splash. It isn't hard. If you shout loud enough, for long enough, a crowd will gather to see what all the noise is about. It's the nature of crowds. They don't stay long, unless you give them reason.

El cabildo no tuvo la decencia de asignar una pensión a Marina Ortiz de Gaete, esposa legítima del conquistador de Chile, ingratitud tan frecuente por estos lados que incluso tiene nombre: «el pago de Chile».

With the men standing between five feet eight and five feet ten, they were inches taller than the average Spanish soldier—taller than Cushing. The twice repulsion of a formidable conquistador and the dispossession of his dreams made the Calusa larger-than-life figures in European New World mythology.