Latin Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.

  William Hague

  America, Economy, Bigger

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• I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

  Salma Hayek

  Mean, Mexican, Accents

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• I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.

  Salma Hayek

  Faces, Reason, Havens

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• Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

  Anna Lindh

  Country, Russia, America

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• You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat higher-fat foods, we're the ones with fewer wrinkles - it makes you wonder.

  Salma Hayek

  Moving, Wrinkles, People

  "Salma Hayek Talks Acne, Depression, & Botox" by Kacy Ray, www.foxnews.com. April 5, 2012.

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• In Latin America in general, and Cuba in particular, poets have been the inspiration behind struggles for independence, struggles for freedom of all sorts.

  Margarita Engle

  Struggle, Inspiration, America

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• Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

  James Boswell

  Should Have, Drs, Said

  James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1831). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides: In Five Volumes”, p.384

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• I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

  Jenna Bush

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.

  Aaron Sanchez

  Successful, Mexican, Chinese

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• First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

  Carlos Santana

  Reality, People, Black

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• Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

  Jose Saramago

  Ambition, America, Doctrine

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• Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, America, Surrealism

  "The Yellow Trolley Car in Barcelona, and Other Visions" by William Kennedy, www.theatlantic.com. January 1973.

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• We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

  Cesar Romero

  Men, Lovers, Splendid

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• In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

  Joseph Sobran

  Wisdom, Teaching, School

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• As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.

  Rosie Perez

  Sorry, Office, People

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• ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, America, Office

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2504, Delphi Classics

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• The word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds.

  Jonathan Goldman

  Wise, Sound

  Jonathan Goldman (2002). “Healing Sounds: The Power of Harmonics”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding).

  Dodie Smith

  Dog, Training, Caves

  Dodie Smith (1989). “101 Dalmatians”, p.21, Penguin

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• Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.

  Edmund Waller

  Greek, Poet, Lasting

  "Of English Verse". Poem by Edmund Waller (1668); later published in George Gilfillan "Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham", 1857.

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• I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a name until 1975, when I coined a new word to denote it, fractal geometry, from the Latin word for irregular and broken up, fractus. Today you might say that, until fractal geometry became organized, my life had followed a fractal orbit.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Order, Names, Broken

  "Encyclopedia of World Biography" edited by Thomson Gale, 1997.

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

  Virgil

  Race, Found, Working It

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• How can there be such anger in the minds of the gods?

  Virgil

  Mind

  "The Aeneid".

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