Latin Quotes - Page 27

• Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, America, Disease

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• I was sometimes doing DJ stuff and working in a record shop in Tokyo. That place was a very unique shop. It was the place lots of DJs came to get used and rare records. It had a lot of jazz, funk, Latin and seventies rock.

  Miho Hatori

  Unique, Jazz, Sometimes

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• I was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin.

  Keanu Reeves

  School, High School, Hopeless

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• Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor. Probably even more so than the Brazilian flavor, there's an African, South African and West African influence and on a couple of other tracks there's some Latin flavor and there's some Indian tables on one track, all centered around my jazz guitar and acoustic guitars, and very much a Lee Ritenour sound.

  Lee Ritenour

  Country, Couple, Heart

  "'Jazz Monthly Feature Interview' Lee Ritenour". Interview with Baldwin "Smitty" Smith, jazzmonthly.com. October 2006.

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• We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Necks, Latin Women, Liberated

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• Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to Colombia. From here, they have access to the entire Latin American market.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Animal, Plant, Enormous

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• I feel I'll take on the responsibility of showing the world a whole different kind of Latin woman.

  Eva Mendes

  Responsibility, World, Different

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won't it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?

  Bernard Cornwell

  Heaven, Awkward, Language

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

  Sebastian Arcelus

  America, Political, Century

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

  Juvenal

  Greek, Ignorant, Shameful

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 460, Satires, VI, line 187, 1922.

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• There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.

  John Ruskin

  Power, Drawing, Wish

  John Ruskin (1859). “The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners”, p.4

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• Is it a man walking on the beach, winking at the girls and looking for going to bed? Is it someone who wears a lot of gold chains and rings and sits at the bar? Because this is not me! I am very, very Latin, but not so much lover.

  Antonio Banderas

  Girl, Beach, Men

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• People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of these Latin people - their Spanish is pathetic. They learned it when they became famous as Latinos.

  Salma Hayek

  New York, People, Accents

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• Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Greek, Musical, Use

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.134

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• Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Pyramids, America, Favors

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'.

  Mary Roach

  Space, Sailing, Greek

  Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars”, p.198, Oneworld Publications

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• It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that in one word which either the barbarity or the narrowness of modern tongues cannot supply in more. ...But since every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another, it would be unreasonable to limit a translator to the narrow compass of his author's words; it is enough if he choose out some expression which does not vitiate the sense.

  John Dryden

  Beautiful, Expression, Doe

  "William Gilbert of Colchester". Book by P. Fleury Mottelay, 1893.

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• He was born a King. The wise men came from the East and asked, 'Where is He that is born King of the Jews?' (Matthew 2:2). He died a King.
  In Greek, in Latin, and in Hebrew the description was written above His cross, 'This is Jesus, The King' (Matthew 27:37)

  W. A. Criswell

  Wise, Jesus, Kings

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• The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Speaks Out, Devil, Grammar

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• Words change their meanings, just as organisms evolve. We would impose an enormous burden on our economy if we insisted on payment in cattle every time we identified a bonus as a pecuniary advantage (from the Latin pecus , or cattle, a verbal fossil from a former commercial reality).

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Reality, Bonus, Fossils

  Stephen Jay Gould (2002). “The Structure of Evolutionary Theory”, p.1070, Harvard University Press

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• One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Mind, May, Speak

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime. These primitive and persistently relevant themes are nicely camouflaged by the Latin and old German texts, so the listener can actually feign ignorance while listening to virtually X-rated lyrics. (Veni Veni Venias! Come, come come now!)The music itself toggles between huge forces and a single voice, juxtaposing majesty and intimacy with ease.

  Carl Orff

  Drinking, Ignorance, Voice

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• Don't Latin Americans have the right to ask why their elected governments are being opposed and coup leaders supported?.. Poverty and hardship in large parts of Africa are preventing this from happening. Don't they have the right to ask why their enormous wealth - including minerals - is being looted, despite the fact that they need it more than others?

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Government, Leader, Needs

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter to George W. Bush, www.washingtonpost.com. May 9, 2006.

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• Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino's of Plato in the fifteenth.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Plato, Buddhism, Intellectual

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• We know next to nothing about the relationship between Chavez and Raul Castro. One thing, though, is certain. The Cuban military and political elite do not regard Chavez as a logical successor to Fidel Castro in Latin America.

  Mark Falcoff

  Military, America, Political

  "Post-Fidel Plans for U.S.-Cuba Relations, Migration Policy". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2007.

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