Latin Quotes - Page 13

• The concept of an "architect" is one of the oldest professions in the world. Whereas, some professions, such as a "lawyer", have their roots in Latin, "Archi - tecton" is actually a Greek word, and much older. Just knowing how old the profession is gives me hope that we will still exist for years to come, even if we are changing.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Years, Roots, Knowing

  Source: www.archdaily.com

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• If you look at social movements in Latin America, there are spaces where alternative politics are thought about on the ground, at the grassroots level, but they are always under threat. The problem in North Africa and the Middle East is the politics of oil. It means that the spaces for truly grassroots politics, involving those masses of people excluded from high politics, are very quickly closed down. They are not really allowed any kind of autonomy to develop, and that seems to be the real problem, which gets us back to the neo-colonial relationship.

  Nigel Gibson

  Real, Mean, Oil

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• 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

  Adventure, Mean, Roots

  Tom Wujec (1995). “Five Star Mind: Games and Exercises to Stimulate Your Creativity and Imagination”, Main Street Books

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• I began to analyze the movie [The Day the Earth Stood Still] and said it was really made out of these two characters [Nikola Tesla and Leon Teremin] who were brought together. That made it fascinating to me. And especially the language they made up, that Klaatu speaks. Because it has a Latin word order. It's like medieval Latin, but it had some Navajo phonemes in it and that kind of stuff.

  Paul Laffoley

  Character, Order, Two

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• Mexico City is the center of art and culture and politics and has been and continues to be for Latin America in a way that I think really called to me as an artistic person, as someone that was interested in the politics of Latin America, you know. God, every single famous person in Latin American history and art and politics seems to have found their way to Mexico City.

  Junot Diaz

  Art, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.

  Gore Vidal

  Mean, Men, Political

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Nature, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.161, Harvard University Press

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• If you wish to be loved, love.

  Seneca the Younger

  Love, Life, Wish

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• I still consider myself to be an amateur filmmaker. And I say that because in the Latin origin of the word amateur is the word love, and it's love of a form, whereas professional implies something you do for money or for work.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Form, Filmmaker, Words Love

  "Jim Jarmusch On Iggy Pop, Hip-Hop And Finding Poetry In Mundane Things". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, weku.fm. January 31, 2017.

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• It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Government, Language, Excellent

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.618, Macmillan

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• Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Tree, Speak

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves”, p.70, Scholastic UK

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• Sydney: I like Latin. It's fun. Eddie: I can't believe you think we're the strange ones.

  Richelle Mead

  Fun, Believe, Thinking

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• The Catholic religion at the time was much darker and more mysterious. The entire mass was in Latin. The church was - if you go to my church now, it's incredibly bright inside. But at - when I was young, it was very dark inside. And it was just the difference in the way that they've painted it since I've gone there. And it strives for a very different and welcoming spirit.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dark, Differences, Catholic Religion

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A couple of years ago I picked up New Yorker writer Alma Guillermoprieto's "The Heart That Bleeds," which is reportage from Latin America in the 1990s. You can predict that some books will give you a thrill, but you can't predict the books that will hit you hard. It is a little bit like falling in love.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Falling In Love, Couple, Book

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.

  Ruth Simmons

  Winning, Men, America

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Strong, Book, Shelves

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1542, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to expand globally will be severely limited, if only because Beijing and Moscow have no qualms about blending politics and business.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Qualms About, America, Russia

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• I looked to many, many filmmakers. I was influenced by the Neo-Realists, and by the Cuban, and the Latin American cinema, the '70s, European experimental work. And fortunately, all those influences gave me the strength to think, "I can make my way. I'm a creative person, I can try to create a way that is uniquely mine because I've seen so much, and I've experienced so much."

  Lourdes Portillo

  Thinking, Creative, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Language, Easy

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• Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Color, America, Categories

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• A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval Carmina Burana - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.

  James Fenton

  Age, Doe, Use

  "It ain't necessarily so" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2002.

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• Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

  Gloria Estefan

  Parent, Affection, Expressive

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• Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Travel, Women, Flower

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• Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

  Noam Chomsky

  America, Pathology, Threat

  "Noam Chomsky on Venezuela". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2011.

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• Long live the Unity of Latin America.

  Hugo Chavez

  America, Long, Unity

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