Spanish Quotes
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Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.
Fidel Castro -
I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.
Zoe Saldana
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I love being Spanish as much as I love being Irish, and I really love being Irish.
Martin Sheen -
Dortmund is a fantastic club, critical for my career. But my Spanish grandfather on my mother's side always wished that I play in Spain. And if, then at Real Madrid.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang -
When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.
Tea Obreht -
I would eventually leave the business in 1999 to work full-time as a writer, but during the previous decade, I would advise French businessmen on how to succeed in Germany; tell Americans what to do in Eastern Europe; show the Spanish how to become more like the Americans. I spent one particularly haunting year advising bankers in Mexico.
Matthew Stewart -
I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
Patricia Riggen -
English is my first language, but musically speaking, I write my music in Spanish.
Anthony Santos Aventura
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I didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish, I fought the fight for the people. We're all God's children. I don't see color. I'm not a racist When I look at Gerry Cooney, I just see a man trying to take my head off.
Larry Holmes -
I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
Odette Annable -
The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.
Enrique Iglesias -
I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.
Chi Chi Rodriguez -
I wanted to be cast because I'm an actor and not because of how I look or where I'm from. I'm brown. I want to be able to play a Spanish girl some day or a Mexican girl and learn the language. That's what actors do: we act.
Priyanka Chopra -
German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.
George Bernard Shaw
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My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best.
Jencarlos Canela -
I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.
Dave Barry -
My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use to speak in Spanish when I was a kid all the time, me and my mom. But when I went to boarding school, I kind of lost it a little bit.
Ed Weeks -
I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.
Carice van Houten -
We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams.
Francisco Franco -
I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.
Jessica Alba
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The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.
David Hewson -
I grew up, and my body was not like a Spanish player. I was tall. I had a powerful game; my arms were long, so I'm like, 'No, you can't play like Spanish players.'
Garbine Muguruza -
In 'Dublinesque', Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas inverts the terms of Joyce's 'Ulysses' and tells the story of a man who, after living a hyperkinetic life like those of Odysseus and Leopold Bloom, resolves to never leave his room again and to reduce his mental activity to a minimum.
Alvaro Enrigue -
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
Charles V